Tom Beaulieu

For more detail, I’ll ask the deputy minister to provide that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll just have the deputy minister explain the difference between the two quickly.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will ask the deputy minister to respond to that specific question.

Finance will be doing the same thing. To show a true reflection of what the shift is, they will be putting the positions in previous years, so it wouldn’t show a sharp increase in positions there as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As a government, we’re going through the process of responding to the overall vacancy positions, dormant positions and the positions that have been identified in the House. What we’re presenting here are the main estimates and the changes that we’re going from one main estimate to the other main estimate and not which PYs are being reported through PeopleSoft. What we are providing to the Members as the overall from the government was to indicate and respond to the questions of the dormant positions, positions to be filled, and then a full report that we are going to be...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll have the deputy minister respond to that.

I’m going to ask the deputy minister to provide a response on that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To my right is Sheila Bassi-Kellett, deputy minister, Department of Human Resources; to my left is Michelle Beard, director of policy, Department of Human Resources.

Thank you. I don’t have a timeline on that. What I can do is go back to the department and they will provide me a timeline of that full analysis that the Member speaks of and then provide that timeline to the House. Thank you.

The Department of Transportation is aware of the full cost of the bridge and whatnot and the evaluation will be based on the tolls that we’ve put in place for the crossing of the bridge at one point. At the end of I think the last fiscal year, we had completed an analysis of the cost, the toll costs and the revenues that we’ve received from that and we have that information available. Thank you.