I want to hook on to one of the questions that was asked about the retention or hiring of people in rural areas or regions of the country.
If you go back and look, you'll see that when you have jobs and hire in certain locations outside of capitals, retention rates are extremely high. As a matter of fact, this is extremely effective. Do you have any kind of policy that looks to expand this, rather than centralize all of these jobs in the major areas, where they're poached by everybody? As an agency of the Government of Canada, I think you should be doing more of that. That's the one question from me.
Regarding the other thing I want to know, you mentioned Service Canada—and I think they're great—but you wanted to know what they're like. They're like an MP's office. My staff is very well trained to do a lot of what Service Canada does. But I want to know who coordinates all of this.
In my area, they're going to have to hire ten people to do essentially what my office and Ray Bonin's office do for passports—that is, to check them and send them to Gatineau. Then they'll have to wait, right now for 45 working days to get a regular passport. They can't get an emergency passport, unless they travel five or six hours.
Why wouldn't the Government of Canada say that it doesn't make a lot of sense to hire ten people here to do what's already happening, when we can set up a processing office probably with fewer staff, and actually serve the people in the area? Does anybody look at that? Or is it just Service Canada is now the way to go, and there's no service, but it's nice? It sounds good—nice ads.