I don't have any information or data that will back up my scenario, but I'm going to provide a scenario and ask how you feel departments should change their practice for the better.
A couple of years ago, we had a major issue as it pertained to the number of passport applications that were coming in. I know the department hired many people. I don't know how many of those were temporary people, but I suspect that included in that hiring effort were some people who came in on a temporary basis. I know right now HRSDC is bringing in many people. They're trying to find people both within their organization, within government, but also outside of government to address increases in EI applications.
In these two examples, government and the departments have had to bring people in from the outside, and I'm just hypothesizing here, but possibly some of them are indeterminate. If that's the case, and if in both cases they believe this will be a shorter term and not a super long-term scenario, what would be the better alternative if they are trying to address short-term concerns within their departments?