Generally, I would agree with I’ll call it the broad observation provided by the deputy minister, and I would say, from my point of view, I hear your point, but the issue of a 10 percent average, as the Minister has highlighted, a 9 percent average as he said earlier specific to the Department of Justice, and this dollar amount adding up to, on a rolling basis, just under $6 million. That tells me that if a position is open, there are dollars not being allocated whatever number of days that it’s not being allocated towards. Now, you don’t pay casuals at 100 percent of the normal cost and they don’t cost the full value of what a full-time employee may have cost, so they’re rolling dollars that are being left, I guess, in the system as positions are being filled and being made vacant. At the same time, I agree that, yes, in some cases it may be short periods of time they’re vacant; however, at the same time there are positions where there are extended vacancies so that’s where we get the rolling average, I would assume.

If there is a rolling average then I would ask this: If the Minister has identified just under $6 million that’s attributed to the approximate 9 percent vacancy in the Department of Justice, out of that just under $6 million, how much money is basically not being spent in the department on human resources? Because this is probably a calculation the department makes every year when they look at rolling the money back as a surplus at the end of the year.