The department that undertakes a strategic review does an impact analysis of who would be affected by a program proposal put forward for reallocation. The mitigation of the risk involved in that is considered in the analysis. In some cases a program that overlaps with another program may result in a revised new program that can pick up some of the clientele from the old program. So there's a variety of possible outcomes there. But impacts on recipients or stakeholders are considered by the department.
On March 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.