No, I don't think there has been a great deal of transparency to date about cuts.
For example, I happened to meet with the President of the Treasury Board, and we talked about my asking which programs they are looking at right now. He said they really don't know.
Well, we can talk about the programs, but once he has them on the table and they look at the programs, if they cut them or eliminate them completely, that will tell me where the job losses or the hits are going to be in communities.
What they're looking at is areas in which services are provided in communities. We have no clue in that. And they're going to outside experts, paying $90,000 a day to those experts, to assist them.
We have plenty of experts who are workers in the public service who have thoughts on that. When I asked him about that, he said they were asking those folks. I just happened to have been all across Canada speaking at a lot of our conventions where our members are, and I asked them whether they had been asked yet by their bosses how they can help. I got limited responses. In one convention of 500, five hands went up.
So they're not talking at the workplace, they're not talking to the people who are doing the job, they're going to outside experts—and I don't know where they get their expertise.
Transparency is not a word I would use in dealing with them.