Status of Women committee  Yes, I have been following some of the presentations you've been receiving. They're very interesting presentations and good witnesses. Absolutely, having role models is extraordinarily important. My first appointment as an executive in the public service was as secretary-general

Status of Women committee  There are 89.

Status of Women committee  There are five people in Edmonton, five in Moncton, five in Montreal, and the rest are here, at the Ottawa office, where four or five people work solely on the Ontario region.

Status of Women committee  For the time being, Mr. Desnoyers, I have no restructuring plans. Internally, we are looking at current priorities and ensuring...

Status of Women committee  I can certainly provide the committee with how the staffing--

Status of Women committee  No, but I do know that some of the measures...because of course I looked at that when I arrived, to try to understand the dynamics of the offices and that. I think the other important point to remember is that the use of the website was not adequate at the time. A person could n

Status of Women committee  Currently, the four offices? It's four or five employees per office, depending on the vastness of the region they're covering.

Status of Women committee  I think there might have been one or two offices that were larger. Do you mind if I defer the question to someone who might have been there? Havelin.

Status of Women committee  I wouldn't be able to answer questions on the rationale. Firstly, I wasn't there, and it was a decision of the government of the day, so it's a policy decision. But what was lost? There were no programs lost. The reduction in the regional offices came at the same time as a reco

Status of Women committee  There was no 75% cut.

Status of Women committee  Offices, sorry.

Status of Women committee  No, the programs were not lost. What we're talking about are points of service. So all of these points of service would be asked to provide the same service. They were all delivering the same program. They were then centralized.

Status of Women committee  It's not a 75% reduction of employees. It would be 16--

Status of Women committee  Yes. So when you close a site, you reinforce another site to be able to deliver the services of that region.

Status of Women committee  As you know, six departments were audited by the Auditor General, and those six departments have an action plan that they must be implementing in a period of one year. The three central agencies are also part of that implementation plan. A positive surprise was that five departm