The department follows the positions. It’s a service department that provides a service to the departments in hiring, recruiting and retaining positions for the government. The departments make decisions on which ones to move forward with.

I’d like to give an example of positions. We have quite a few casuals for a variety of reasons. We have 208 casuals working as of October 31, 2013. For various reasons when we can’t sometimes fill the position because of the requirements, we aren’t able to find an individual that fits the requirements of that specific job title, but the job still has to be met. So we find a casual that can do the job with support from other staff because the job has to be done. That would be one of the examples in small communities where there are positions where the requirement could be of a university degree and we don’t have the housing in the community to bring someone else with a university degree in from another area to live there, so we take a local

person, put them in a casual position and continue to try to do the job. Thank you.