Mr. Chairman, the Member is correct; I think historically we have had
some challenges filling some of the positions for engineers and project managers. Our senior staff over the last year or so have really worked hard to improve that. We had the opportunity to hire a number of people in the technical area. I think we’re probably better positioned now with the people that we’ve brought on stream and some of the work being contracted out. So we are in a good position to move forward. We don’t expect it’s going to cause a lot of concern now that we’ve staffed up.
I have to admit, though, that there are some things that are causing delays, such as weather. We had some discussions already with the Member for Nahendeh about work that was delayed due to rain and wet weather that just couldn’t be done. So those kinds of things are unforeseen and we’re probably going to see more of that as time goes by.
For the most, and in response to the Member’s question, we are doing a lot better than we have historically. We’ve been able to fill a lot of our positions and we’ve been able to contract a lot of the work out also, so it’s really put us in a good position to move forward on these projects on our books. Thank you