I just want to put on the record for Mr. Brison's benefit that he actually has the cart before the horse. All departments and heads of departments were asked to submit 5% and 10% plans to find inefficiencies in their departments. It was only after these proposals were made that the government came up with the deficit reduction action plan decisions.
So again, Mr. Brison actually has the cart before the horse and is wrong when he says that's the way it happened, because in fact it happened the other way. The submissions were made and then we took the Auditor General's recommendations and accepted these as being duplicative, unnecessary, and ineffective.