Mr. Chairman, I guess that is a fairly
large assumption on behalf of the department and on behalf of government: that this budget is actually going to pass. We’re affecting the lives of over 100 people to what end? It’s not entirely necessary, in my mind, that we’ve had to do this. Notifying them is one thing, but moving them around and impacting other people while you’re doing it, to me, is not a
very good process we’re following here. It’s totally pre-empted the budget we have before us.
Really, we’re working with a document that’s not set in stone. It’s evolving every day as people come and go and move around. I really don’t know what we’re doing here. I don’t want to pick on the Minister and the Department of Health and Social Services, but they do have 17 positions that were eliminated. By the looks of things they’ve moved around five people or placed five people without us even passing the budget. That’s more an observation than anything, and that’s an issue I’ll bring up with every department that comes before us.