Mr. Chair, there were three positions. There’s been a competition. One of the incumbents was successful. There are two vacancies as case officers. The other two incumbents, to my knowledge, have applied for those jobs and are expected to get them as priority status employees.

These programs are delivered, I’m told, two to three times a year. They take six weeks each, so they’re not delivered constantly.

The case managers — the same people — will stop doing case management for six weeks, be backfilled by experienced corrections officers and deliver the program. That’s my understanding of how it will work: essentially, the same people delivering the program but under the name of case officer as opposed to a PDO.

I might add that this model is the one that is used in all of our smaller facilities for delivering programs. We were asked to find efficiencies within the system. We’ve tried to do that. We’re satisfied that the programs will not be adversely affected, and

actually, this particular reduction won’t result in any layoffs.