Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to follow up to a response earlier today to some of my general comments with respect to active positions. The fact remains that the numbers have not changed from fiscal 2014 to the proposed budget of 265 total employees, and if I look at the disbursement of jobs per allocation of regional allocation, nothing has changed. Everything has stayed the same. There may have been transfers in and out, but the actual numbers are still whole.
Again, if my math is correct, this increase for this category, as I said earlier, is 7.7 percent, and we heard from the deputy minister that about $950,000 of it was due to collective bargaining or what we call forced growth. That’s only about 2.9 percent, which leaves, again if my math is correct, 4.8 percent that is not forced growth. We’ve heard that there was $984,000 in transfers and some other stuff in there.
I would like to get more detail if I can on that breakdown of that 4.8 percent that is not forced growth so I can fully understand what will be transpiring that justifies that extra expenditure.
Again, every department is going to be scrutinized to the same level. I’m not picking on Finance here. I need to understand forced growth from non-forced growth.