I appreciate, and I’ll make special

recognition of, the fact that the Minister’s

instructions were probably to ensure that whatever impact was going to happen…. I’m sure they were, to some degree, not focused on making sure we created as few ways as possible. I’ll recognize that’s probably an assumption on my part, but I would think that any reasonable person would say, Let’s try to make this as seamless as possible. Assuming that, we would have to come down to a reason as to why these specific positions were chosen over others.

With approximately 117 positions within the headquarters region of Yellowknife, when we would focus in on a specific area a couple questions arise, from my point of view. If I were in the management position of making this type of decision, something I would say to myself would be, “What impact, if I delete this position, would it have?”

I would have to take some analysis, in my mind — whether it’s strategic, where I lay out their job description and say, Well, what do they do and how will it be affected if I suck them out of the system…? I’m trying to get a sense of why these positions were determined as they are. Was that analysis done in any way as I’ve described?