Part of your responsibility, I presume, is to ensure that the minister has the broad range of information to help make decisions.
I asked the minister who he had consulted on this issue. Frankly, I didn't get an answer, so I have to conclude he consulted no one.
Does the department get what I would call stakeholder input before embarking on a major decision like this? Would you have met, for example, with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and with labour unions? Did those kinds of meetings take place?