Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I apologize for not responding to that one piece the Member mentioned earlier. As I highlighted in my opening comments, the recruitment of aboriginal peoples has been a challenge within the department. That’s why we’ve undertaken this one step of training in-house, especially with the negotiator positions and, in fact, moved one up to a chief negotiator. We’ve had some success, as well, on the education leave piece where we’ve had a number of our aboriginal staff go for further education. When that happens,

that opens more doors. In fact, we’ve had two of those staff on, one with the federal government, higher responsibilities and one within our government, another taking on higher responsibilities. We’ve had success but so much success they’ve moved on to other places within governments.

The package we will be working with on two corporate human resources is on the succession planning and further training of aboriginal employees under affirmative action. We’ve tried to do what we can internally through that training package and we will continue to look at more flexibility. That is, for example, the level of entry when it comes into some of these positions are fairly high. A negotiator position is an example where we’ve done the one-year training module with those interested. We have had good success in that area and we’re looking to continue on that path. Thank you.