Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Minister and Mr. LeBlanc, thank you for being with us today.
Minister, I want to continue with the questioning started by my colleague, Mr. Cleary, who talked about Mr. MacAdam. The position of director general, regional operations for P.E.I., was a new position created in the fall of 2010. You're aware, of course, that you had 42 positions cut from ACOA last fall, and 65 more by this budget. We've got a position here for Mr. MacAdam that didn't exist more than a year and a half ago. It has yet to have a full-time employee performing it and may not for—who knows?—maybe another year.
So is this job more critical than the hundred or so that have been cut by your government in the last year? That includes auditors, by the way, the five or six auditors who were cut in this budget, who, I would think—in terms of accountability—would play an important role.