As I said before, the impact would be very significant. We are talking about at least 1,200 jobs in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. Even more jobs than that are occasionally involved. There are 1,500 jobs in Mauricie. That represents payrolls of about $75 million in Mauricie and $50 million in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. It is assumed that those people spend money in their region, but they will no longer be doing that if those jobs disappear.
You were talking about Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. By the way, congratulations on your French. I'm happy to hear that you improved your French in Quebec. We are talking about the tax centre in Jonquière. However, it should be understood that the Canada Revenue Agency no longer has a lot of tax centres, with only three of them left. The Government of Quebec tax centres are in Quebec City, on Marly Street, as well as in other locations, but none are in Jonquière. If there was a single tax return, and it was administered by the provincial government, it would no longer need to keep a centre open in Jonquière. As jobs would no longer be necessary in that specific region, the government could reassign them to its other tax centres. Those people process tax returns, but, as the T1 return from the federal government would no longer exist, they would have no returns to process. There would be a different tax return under a different name, a combined return for Quebec. Since the Canada Revenue Agency's systems are not designed to process that, they would have to be modified, which would be complicated. So those employees would become redundant.
What's more, a number of employees in Shawinigan and in Jonquière are contract employees and have no job security. So if something like that was to happen, they would lose their job suddenly, very easily. Thousands of Canada Revenue Agency's employees are under a temporary contract, unfortunately, and they are extremely vulnerable. By the way, Revenu Québec also has contract employees. They would be just as vulnerable if everyone had to be put into a single Revenu Québec centre. I can tell you that I would fight to protect the jobs of permanent employees at the Canada Revenue Agency and perhaps even the jobs of Revenu Québec's contract employees.
In short, it would not be simple.