Certainly, when we look at the Expenditure Restraint Act, which restricted professionals' salaries to 1.5% going back from 2006 all the way to 2011, we see that the government is trying to gain favour by being tough and saying it is very fiscally minded with its own money and therefore it's restricting people's salaries. At the same time, billions--and I do stress that it is billions of dollars--are being spent without regard, without oversight, behind closed doors on private sector contracts.
On October 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.