Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister responsible for the public service, for the Department of Human Resources, Mr. Bob McLeod. Mr. Speaker, we live in stressful times and we certainly know and believe that employees are entitled to all the benefits and all the leaves that are encompassed in their employment contracts. Mr. Speaker, we hear that at any given time in the public service, 10 percent of positions are not filled. They are vacant and people must be off the job in various other types of leave as well: education leave, stress leave and maternity leave and all different kinds; bereavement leave.

Mr. Speaker, today I’d like to ask particularly about the issue of stress leave. Does the Minister know at any given time how many employees on a

percentage basis, just an estimate, would be off from the public service in the Northwest Territories on stress leave? Thank you.