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—

Finance committee  Where you do have an economic boom, like in Saskatchewan right now, the people who are losing their jobs in the public service will probably find jobs in the private sector—

Finance committee  I was in Edmonton a couple weeks ago. There was some sort of a job fair going on because of all those layoffs in the public service. So that's the good news. But just to transfer that to other provinces...the problem is different.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  I'm not aware of the exact figures for Service Canada.

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—