Mr. Evans, I'm going to give you other statements that were reported by the media, and you'll then comment. We probably won't have the time to address them one by one at this rate.
Is it true that the government asked you to recover 5% of your operating budgets? That was reported in the media, and it leads me to say this: the government made some election-style announcements in cutting the GST, but it looks like it's now up to each department to recover money. I get the impression these people have a budget problem. In short, is it true that you were asked to recover 5% of your operating budgets?
Is it true that you're going to have to cut assistance to agricultural producers for BSE inspections? We're talking about cuts of $24 million over the next three years.
According to the plan that Mr. Pomerleau revealed to his union, the inspectors will now have a general oversight mandate, whereas the industry will verify food safety. Is that true? I think you partly answered that earlier, but I'd like to know whether you deny that all this change in the system was approved by your services last November. Is it true that, for unknown reasons, communication problems, that wasn't known? Did your services already know of this plan in November? Was it then shelved and kept there until Mr. Pomerleau sent it to his union?
Let's start with the 5% cuts?