I'm going to come back to the question of the 3% savings across departments. The Minister of National Revenue was here earlier, and she concluded her opening remarks by praising the staff at the CRA for the good work they do. No doubt there are folks across government who have done a lot of hard work over the last number of years.
Many of them have been two years without a contract, and those two years have been incredible with inflation and the cost of living. I think there's some concern that naming a 3% savings target in advance of concluding those agreements is an attempt to try to put constraints on what's possible at the bargaining table.
I'd like to hear whether it's the department's intention to see the 3% savings represented in the mandate of the Treasury Board at the bargaining table, or if the idea is to find those savings outside of the collective bargaining process so that this period of inflation, which we've all been going through, can be recognized in some appropriate way at the table in those negotiations.