Finance committee  Actually, I can't provide that information at this time—my apologies.

Finance committee  Triple-A.

Finance committee  As I was a last-minute replacement for President Corbett and science is not my portfolio, I would prefer to defer the question.

Finance committee  Actually, I believe the cost of the government study was $90 million, not $20 million.

Finance committee  It was not $20 million. It was Deloitte & Touche. Our position was that it was unnecessary dollars being spent, which costs taxpayers. Quite frankly, the expertise to properly evaluate programs and to look for efficiencies is in-house. Instead, this government chose to go o

Finance committee  Our members have been very hard hit by cuts to Environment Canada. Obviously, to the extent that our members' jobs are being cut, services to Canadians are being cut. That obviously puts at risk future generations of Canadians.

Finance committee  The bottom line on this government's deficit action reduction plan is that there are literally indiscriminate job cuts right across federal departments and agencies; it's not looking carefully at where the cuts should be made. The institute has on many occasions offered to work w

Finance committee  The bottom line is that the government is being very secretive with respect to where the job cuts are happening, to the extent that we haven't been consulted and we haven't been able to offer our input to mitigate the impact on Canadians. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Ke

Finance committee  With respect to the closure of the service centres, it more directly impacts one of our sister unions, PSAC, since our union primarily represents professionals. Having said that, the closure of these offices is coming at a time when Canadians need them most. From what I've hear

Finance committee  I'm actually a last-minute replacement for President Corbett of the institute. With the indulgence of everyone here, I would prefer that Peter Bleyer, a policy adviser at the institute, take that question.

Finance committee  My name is Shannon Bittman. I'm a national vice-president with the institute representing 60,000 federal public service workers across Canada. We're very pleased to be here participating in the House finance committee's pre-budget process. Our submission has identified a few of

Finance committee  No, as a point of clarification, what we're saying is that indiscriminate cuts to the public service are not going to do anything to help or sustain the economy. You need strong federal public service jobs in outlying regions of the country to sustain the local economy. You need

Finance committee  The institute has frequently offered to work with the government to help identify cost savings and efficiencies in government. We agree that the public service needs to do things smarter, just like everyone else.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Quite honestly, we haven't seen any evidence of the corporate tax cuts being invested in the economy and, therefore, creating positive impacts.