We're not laying off staff in the Meteorological Service of Canada. We're significantly reinvesting in the meteorological service. In these supplementary estimates we are seeking resources to support three things that are core to the business: our monitoring networks, which constantly need to be maintained and made more resilient; our supercomputing capacity, which is at the core of our predictions system; and the work we do to strengthen weather warning and forecast, which is a constant process that we do to improve the reliability of our forecasting capability, not only for one- or two-day forecasts, but for forecasts that are further out.
On November 26th, 2014. See this statement in context.