The bottom line is that the government is being very secretive with respect to where the job cuts are happening, to the extent that we haven't been consulted and we haven't been able to offer our input to mitigate the impact on Canadians. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Kevin Page, recently threatened to take the government to court to make the government more open and transparent with respect to where the job cuts will be. Quite frankly, our hands are tied, because we're not being consulted.
On October 17th, 2012. See this statement in context.