The experience doesn't really bear that out, though, Mr. Moloney, with all due respect. Out of 1,950 employees, you have only 170 of them in the field. I'm not being critical of your organization, but I can't imagine. For an aid organization, it seems like a disproportionate number of them are taking the bus to work in Ottawa or Gatineau instead of.... Anyway, I have to move on as time is limited.
It strikes me, in listening to this presentation, that there is a contradiction I'd like to ask your view on. We're borrowing money to give $15 billion worth of tax cuts to the most profitable corporations in the country at the same time as we are cutting and hacking and slashing the budget for CIDA to alleviate world poverty. I don't think anybody argues that it was the unbridled greed and the wretched excess of the corporate community that caused the economic downfall, that caused all the stimulus spending, and that has now caused all the cutbacks. Yet we are borrowing money, $15 billion, to reward that bad behaviour, in terms of giving further tax cuts.
Do you share my criticism of this seeming contradiction, this pretzel logic?