Thank you, Mr. Minister. Just one other point I think I would like to make, or maybe a question to ask, is: with all these competitions that are out there, I’d be curious to know — and I suppose the Minister can supply me with the information after the hiring is done — how many of these new hires would be from outside the Northwest Territories?
I’m sure the Minister would commit to providing me with that information once the hiring is done, because, again, I will say that…. Looking at all these job competitions, and we’re proposing to lay off all these employees, I would probably be safe to assume that 75 to 80 per cent of these employees are long-term Northerners. I don’t know how many — 41 per cent, or something like that — are aboriginal.
I’d be really curious to see, once all the firing is done, how many folks were hired from outside the Northwest Territories. And if we have a few, then that should cause this Assembly a lot of concern.