Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I have some questions on the summer student program. I am a firm believer in investing in our youth and investing in students. Students are out getting their education. We need to attract the person back. We need to treat that student with respect. When they come to the Government of Northwest Territories, we should do all we can to try to make positions available for the students. I would not advocate to create a budget for summer students because, under normal circumstances, I do understand that we have a certain amount of turnover in our system. If we are turning over nine per cent of the public service, as an example, we will say 400 people roughly, at that point in time in which it takes to recruit 400 people, there could be a two-month lapse, say hypothetically. We have 400 people changing over approximately two months. That creates quite a bit of a surplus in that area. That surplus is being used to hire summer students.
This year, many summer students have been advised that, due to the budget reductions in the exercise that we are currently going through right now, they were not able to be hired because of this budget reduction. I received a call from the media asking me what I know about that as a former Minister of Human Resources, and my response was we are on a status quo budget. We have an internal supply right now from April 1stto June 30th. There should be no change in what is occurring this year than what has occurred last year. Departments are out there saying due to the budget reduction exercises we are unable to hire the summer students that we need to hire. That was my response. I don't know whatever happened with that. It was a question that was posed upon me. I would like to know if the exercise that we are going through right now has any impact on the hiring of summer students this year. Thank you.