Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the opportunity to return to the theme of jobs and, certainly, access to opportunities. We heard rightly from my colleagues, like Member Yakeleya, that, quite frankly, the average person wants to know why isn’t there a nurse in Colville or why isn’t there a community maintainer in Paulatuk or why isn’t there these plumbers in Fort Simpson. Like, why? When they hear of 1,150 job vacancies on that last snapshot, it causes great concern.
My questions, obviously, are for the Minister of Human Resources, and I’m going to say this: We passed the budget and we know that many of the positions are funded and those position dollars are moved to other positions. We also know for a fact that some of this job funding that we pass in this House is used for O and M, so the question really lies down to simply this: How many of these positions are we talking about that are specifically targeted at moving their job dollars to O and M funding and how much is that in dollars so the public knows what’s happening?