I thank you for your intervention.
I'm sure the witnesses are well aware of what the discussion is. It's the impact of the freeze on departmental budgets. We are here, really, listening to the demographics and on how the freeze on departmental budgets will impact the demographics.
If you could focus on that area, it would be well worth our while, because that's what we are studying.
There's a shift in demographic change, and that's the attrition. All of the questions and the presentations really deal with what's going on in that department.
I know you're asking for cuts in different departments, but that's really not the purview here. The Treasury Board Secretariat is the chief human resource officer, not the minister of Treasury Board. So perhaps you could guide your questions accordingly.
Thank you.