Finance committee  Good morning. My apologies to the interpreters because I will have to cut my speech short. Please bear with me. My name is Claude Poirier. I am the President of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, but I am here to talk on behalf of the Professional Serving Canadi

Finance committee  According to our analysis of the Statistics Canada model on the impact of public service job cuts, here are the data for the private sector. In Ontario, 18,199 jobs will be lost; in Quebec, 9,314; in western Canada, 4,886; in Atlantic Canada, 4,286; and in British Columbia, 4,009

Finance committee  The workforce adjustment directive and the appendices to our collective agreements are there to allow the government to move people around and to change the way work is being done. That is part of the deal that Canada has with its unions. I don't have the exact figures on increas

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  There's also a guy on TV in Quebec.

Finance committee  Red Deer, per se, I don't know; I don't have the exact figure in my—

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  That's the result of the Statistics Canada model. It's a linear model. There might be some flaws in it.

Finance committee  Yes, because you cannot really.... I mean, we have nurses losing their jobs—

Finance committee  Well, part of it, for sure. I mean, we all pay the bill—

Finance committee  We all pay for that. I mean, even public service employees are taxpayers.

Finance committee  We're supposed to have a government for all Canadians. They too are Canadians.

Finance committee  Probably, yes.

Finance committee  Yes, and—

Finance committee  Alberta, Saskatchewan—