Thank you, Mr. Chair. I only speak for myself in a context that's hypothetical, but I know that if I were the Minister of Human Resources, I would fight to get them on the books.
I would find it odd. I think we’re challenged, as Regular Members on this side, when we hear that you’re funding unestablished positions — in the formal context, when I call it that — and we’re not funding them properly. One could then beg to argue, “Well, if you can get by at a certain percentage short, why can’t everyone else get by?”
I just find it odd that these positions aren’t on the books, and I’d like to know why. For us to get the real picture of what’s happening over there, I think it also starts with the fact that we should know how many people are truly in that department, and then it falls out as to how are we paying them.
As I said — more tongue in cheek — this is a shining example. It seems to be an example that we’re shuffling resources in order to pay people that aren’t on the books. I don’t think that’s right. That’s not a good practice of showing our true accounting.