Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I’m going to ask roughly the same questions I asked on this page for the other departments.
I’m just trying to reconcile some of the position changes in my brain. I see that when we look at the bottom line numbers, the department is going down by four positions, yet we do see some increases — six positions up in Yellowknife headquarters — and then pretty much all of the regions are going down. I’m a little confused by some of the numbers. I was under the impression that the department was identifying 22.5 positions for elimination.
Similar to yesterday and all the previous days, can the Minister please give me a bit of an outline or concept of how they went through the department and identified which positions to eliminate and what
the criteria used for those eliminations was? At the same time, how many of these 22.5 or so positions, or whatever the correct number might be, were in fact vacant, how many were filled, and what is the status of those positions now?