Thank you, Madam Chair. There's definitely always concern, and it's warranted during these processes. It's very challenging for people when there's change, and we recognize that, and work very closely with folks and had many discussions about this. We made a decision at the beginning of this that it was best to have the folks who are doing the work involved in looking at the org design and the optimization of that because they know best how they work with others, rather than going in and just defining an org design that may not work in the end. And we're trying to minimize the potential for there to have to be far more work done on the org design, which would just keep people in kind of limbo for quite some time.
With this, we expect that there are actually quite a few -- quite very few people that are going to be impacted. Let me say that again because I misspoke. Very few people that will be impacted. We're working with HR to define the number right now. But at this point, it's looking like less than ten individuals that may be affected. And of those, there would be people that would be offered a reasonable job offer. It's very few people that would be impacted in this. And that messaging has been made clear to folks at the department as well. So I'm hopeful that people will feel more comfortable that this is a small number of folks that are being impacted.
The messaging from the GNWT has been clear that this is not a reductions exercise. It's to be more effective and efficient, and that's part of why we need this optimization phase which will culminate in a business plan and that is where it's intended to show the changes so we have time to make sure that we're doing it right. Thank you, Madam Chair.