Certainly, the issue of resources is not a new one. I do recall that committee did raise this during the review of our business plan, and while we would have liked to have added additional resources in the legislative area, physical limitations and forced growth prevented us from doing that. We have, however, re-profiled a senior policy position in our department and our unit to be more of a legislative researcher position. Historically, this position would deal with more policy related and perhaps support to the Minister’s office. Those sorts of things. We’ve recognized the need for more dedicated research in the area of legislation and, accordingly, have re-profiled this position to provide more support in that area.
To be honest, it’s more of a “let’s see how we’re doing” phase right now with the resources that we’ve added. We seem to have made progress on both CEMA and the Fire Prevention Act, so we’re confident that we are moving the priorities forward, the ones that are with us right now. We need to have some success in those areas before we can undertake new challenges, so at this point it is our anticipated plan to work within existing resources and see if we can make some headway with what we have right now.