I'm not aware that the Department of Public Works and Government Services has an issue with the loss of professional staff. Most of the work is contracted out to private consultants and is only managed by the engineers and architects within Public Works, so I don't believe there is a problem. In the future that may materialize, with our aging workforce, but at the present time I'm not aware that there is any problem that way with the capacity to do the work in-house.
On February 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.