The reductions of which you are speaking arise out of the deficit reduction program that the government has undertaken in the past several years. It is within individual governments and government agencies that adjustments are made. Indeed, adjustments were made in the Department of Finance. We reduced the size of the workforce in the Department of Finance. The Bank of Canada made adjustments at my request, as did the other crown agencies that report to me, as Minister of Finance, and to Parliament. We don't have any free agents out there doing whatever they want.
