Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, will be brief. I support my colleague Mr. Jacobson in his quest to have this decision reversed to eliminate the airport manager position in his community.
The Minister said this position is coming up in ’09–10. This individual got a notification letter. What does the Minister and what does the government expect Regular Members to do when people in our communities are getting notification letters on a budget for next year? Do they expect us to just sit by and continue to take that? No. We’re going to stand up, and we’re going to defend ourselves, and we’re going to argue that what you’re doing is wrong. In this case it’s wrong. We’ve got no defence. We could go through the business plans next fall, and regarding that position, the guy’s been notified for five months.
It’s not the Department of Transportation’s fault in this. They had to go out; they had to do their reduction exercise; they had to identify positions. But the way it’s being done is wrong, Mr. Chairman, absolutely wrong, and I support this motion.