Mr. Speaker, the Minister just said something really interesting, which is the departments can’t advertise all the positions all at once. That’s an interesting situation, because if you go to the career website, there’s barely 100 jobs there and the Minister just earlier said there is at least 1,150 jobs considered as a snapshot of vacancies. So there’s a variance of at least 1,000 jobs and we know that they are actively pursuing, although we can’t find it anywhere, 571 jobs.
So when I asked the question to the Minister – and I will ask it again – do we continue to fund these positions that nobody is in, his answer is maybe.
Can the Minister officially clear it up on the record that when a person transfers on a transfer assignment, we’ll say from the Department of Justice over to the Department of Education that even though he’s now paid by the Department of Education, the Department of Justice continues to fund that position at its home office? So in other words, that money is sitting there. Will he clear it up and tell me where that money goes? Thank you.