Thank you for the question.
You're right. Bureaucracies could keep growing to just satisfy themselves if they were not held in check. It's always a matter of checks and balances.
As you may know, in the public service there's a very rigorous performance management assessment of what we call the EX cadre that goes on every year, meaning all the people in the management side, versus the union side. The managers are held to a very rigorous performance management assessment, and within that, of course, their own human resource management practices are analyzed and measured to determine whether they're adequate.
The systems within the public service are in fact very rigorous, making it very difficult to actually hire people, as you know. It's one of the complaints that Canadians have about the public service, that it's very difficult to get in. One of the reasons it's very difficult to get in is that we're very careful about bringing on any new employees if we're not fairly confident that the money for the programming is there to actually support those employees.
So there are checks and balances at all levels of what we do, and great care is paid to that very question.