I would like to see if the Minister could provide this request, to myself or to the committee in writing, for how they count their headquarters and regional positions. I don’t believe that everybody in all of the departments is reporting regional and headquarter positions in the same manner. This, I think, downloads a lot of headquarter positions into the regions that are actually headquarter functions. There are headquarters positions in other communities. That’s fairly well understood. But every opportunity that the government gets to report them as a regional position, it seems to happen.

I actually want to know…. I guess the simple question is: are they reporting it by the function or what the role is, for them to determine whether or not they’re a regional position or a headquarters position? My understanding is that it really has little to do with function but rather where individuals are located. Even a corrections officer that’s located in Hay River is providing the service to the whole territory, not just the South Slave. So I would like to get that in writing.