Now I’m going to go slightly off of my normal position questions, here, because I wasn’t sure where to ask this question. I think the appropriate place might be to ask the Executive because it’s a GNWT-wide question that I’d like to ask.
In looking at these Main Estimates, it looks like there’s a reduction of about 110 positions, which doesn’t seem to match some of the rhetoric we hear out there from the union and some of the talk within the government itself. I’m trying to get a sense of how many staff are truly affected within the GNWT. How many individual people have actually been affected?
I also notice, in going through this, that there have been an awful lot of positions created. So I’m wondering if the Department of the Executive did an analysis identifying the number of positions that are being eliminated and how many positions are being put back, and a comparison of how many vacant positions are being eliminated and how many positions with actual people are being affected. I’m just trying to get a global sense of the true position impact on the GNWT as a whole. I was wondering if any sort of analysis has been done on that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.