The grand chief himself will be there. That's wonderful.
I am trying to understand what you presented in your brief today. It reads: "First, [the Budget] announced a freeze on operating budgets that will require the Department to absorb salary increases for civilian and military personnel of 1.5% until the end of the freeze in 2012-2013."
How are you going to do that? I assume that for civilian personnel, collective agreements are in place. As concerns military personnel, I am somewhat concerned that the reserve forces will be the victims of this measure, because they do not have a fixed budget envelope like the regular forces do. In fact, I wrote a letter to the minister on this subject, saying that it is not normal that these reductions should be made on the backs of the reserve forces. You can confirm to me that there have been salary reductions recently within the reserve forces.
How do you intend to absorb the salary increases of 1.5%, and is there a risk that the reserve forces will suffer from this measure?