Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the encouragement actually came from the Premier who asked the departments to do everything they could to try to attain last year's numbers. Ultimately, the hires are the responsibilities of the individual departments. If we do get resumes of individuals with particular skill sets, we will forward to the department if they match the type of work that the department is doing. So we're trying to get the information out there, let the departments know who's out there, know who's working, who wants to work for the Government of the Northwest Territories. I do have to remind the Member, as all Members, we want to hire as many as we can, but it has to be for meaningful work. We can't just create jobs if there's nothing to do. The departments have to come up with the funding to cover many of these jobs. We do provide some offsets, some top-up money to the departments to help hire summer students through the progressive experience program or the related experience program. Ultimately, at the end of the day, it's the individual departments that are responsible.
As far as the lower numbers in Hay River, the Member did raise that in Committee of the Whole. I'm trying to get verification on why that might be. We believe part of it might be the fact that the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority is outside of the public service, so it doesn't always show those numbers, and we don't participate in the summer student hiring program for Hay River. So I'm trying to get some verification on that. When I get that data, I'll certainly provide it to the Member.