Mr. Speaker, we have shared the list of potentially affected employees — ’08–09, ’09–10 — with Members. There are initiatives that have to be reviewed on which no decisions have been made. For example, the Business Incentive Policy is one of those. We’re going to go out with consultation. No final decisions have been made on that. We’re going to work with committee. We’re going to go out to the public and the business community to get input. Once we decide on how that program gets changed, that’s when it goes into the business plan process.
Clearly, Members have been given the information of potentially affected employees. It included ’08–09, ’09–10. We laid it out the same way as we laid out the fact that the reduction targets would have to go for two years. From past experience of governments that had to make decisions on reductions, it’s fully realized that some of the impact of making a decision this year will not be felt till the next year. But the initial impact starts this year. In some cases, that will happen.
In other cases, where it’s ’09–10, clearly a decision for an ultimate change in that program and delivery and the people affected will not be made until that ’09–10 budget comes before this House.