Mr. Chairman, as I stated, that is a concern for me that if we bypass the process of a competition to accommodate a certain individual that are long-term employees within the government that we might have given awards to, long-term service awards to, are not getting the due respect that they should deserve moving forward. That is a concern, and I think there should be something in place like an appeals process for these individuals who have committed years of service to the GNWT.

One last area of concern is just the double filling of positions, as you heard earlier, in terms of somebody identified. That would mean we’re not paying two people to do the job of one job position even though there’s going to be on-the-job training and those kinds of things. Now we’re having two people do the job of one person, and once again, it’s speaking to the integrity of somebody who’s wanting to maybe retire out of public service who might have put in 30 years, and now instead of giving them the integrity to do their job, it might be a big project on their way out of their project, now we’re sending somebody else in and it all moves kind of like we’re pushing them out the door a lot sooner. That’s just another concern for our long-term employees who have done good work on our behalf and now we’re back double filling a job and paying two people to do the job of one person. I just wanted to put that concern out there as well.