Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I would like to continue asking questions regarding the vacant positions with the Minister of Human Resources.
The Minister should know I’m not asking him to account for whether it’s the Department of Justice or Education or Finance or those things. I’m asking him from his policy position as Minister and steward of Human Resources.
The Minister just confirmed that some positions have been deliberately left vacant and I’ve been told by some people in the bureaucracy, even as of
today, that some positions’ money is being left vacant, and that money is being left vacant for various reasons obviously, but it’s often used for other departmental purposes.
Why is this a contradiction when you can’t use doctor money that you can’t hire doctors for and you can’t use that to hire nurse practitioners, but it’s okay for department officials to turn around and not staff positions, in some cases deliberately, and use that money for other projects? Thank you.