Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll try to respond to all the questions the Member went through. I’ll go through it, but I may miss the last piece.
The total reductions that we targeted were 14 positions: 11 through reductions, three scheduled through sunsets, and that is money that was already ending as of the end of this fiscal year. The impact is seven at headquarters and seven in the regions. Then, through our strategic initiatives, we had five positions added back in. So the net difference is nine positions.
Within the operation of the Department of Executive, much like you’ll find with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs or even Finance or FMBS, because there’s not a lot of program dollars available, we do a lot of work with the people through our efforts. Our work was in trying to highlight how we can best still deliver and work with departments as well as deliver on some of the strategic initiatives and look at some of the relationships we have out there — for example, the Native Women’s Association — looking at those operations and proceeding on that basis and still trying to keep representation. For example, the regional director positions: we had five throughout the Northwest Territories, and we still felt there needed to be some coordination, so we downgraded it two: one north and one south. That’s the approach we have taken throughout this scenario. Unfortunately, yes, there is an impact on individuals as we go through this.