Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for whoever wants to answer them. I’m not sure if it would be the Minister of Human Resources or the Premier.

We talk often in this House about the growth in the public service at headquarters. I have talked about my experience on the occasional visit to an office in one of our ivory towers here in Yellowknife where I walk down hallways and through cubicles and try to find somebody that’s a receptionist or somebody that’s in charge. Let’s just say, there are hundreds and hundreds of public servants in Yellowknife here at headquarters.

We talk about decentralization, and we beg for a few crumbs in the regions, but I’d like to know what the process is for assessing when a position may become obsolete or is no longer required. Because let’s face it, in the government, there is no bottom line that we’re trying to adhere to. The people that are in positions of management are people that are telling the government we need these positions.

But whoever actually looks at the complement of staff and says, okay, you know what, there’s not enough going on here activity-wise to warrant a full-time position in this particular activity, and then maybe delete some positions, we never hear about that. We just keep hearing about the adding on and adding on and adding on.

I’m not trying to dis the public service, but I just wonder. In an operation this size, who is it that would actually look at that and who would come to a Minister and say, you know what, we’ve got people here that they don’t have enough to do. Is that the deputy minister’s job? Whose job is that?