Thank you. If I may, just for the moment, I'd like to speak to the matter of employment equity in the federal public sector. As you may well know, despite a very well-resourced initiative that took place between the years 2000 and 2003, the number of racialized workers within the federal public sector remains lower by quite a large margin than the workforce availability. That is to say, the number of people who are available and willing to work in the federal public sector who are members of visible minorities are much larger than the number of people who are actually at work in the federal public sector.
The Perinbam task force made recommendations and set goals in the year 2000. These goals were adopted by the government as being realistic and achievable.
To cut to the chase, the major goal was that—