Let me talk about the broad brush increases that we have seen. And then on the minutiae, of course, if there are specific questions, Madam Chair, we can look at it on a department-by-department basis.
But when you consider the increase in the size of the public service itself, it's very significant. You can look at it either over 10 years or year to year. In terms of the public service, there has been a 27% increase in individuals from 1999 to 2009, and a big portion of that was from the time we formed government in 2006. That's a pretty hefty increase. In terms of core public administration, the increase has been over 34%. And this year you have seen a significant increase in the number of public servants over last year.
Two of the main drivers there...we did indicate that we would have the funding in place for an increase in the number of RCMP across the country, and part of that increase is reflected in this year's budget.
We also said we would make sure our armed forces would have an increase in their regular members, up from 63,000 in 2005 to where I think we're at 68,000 plus a few right now.
So in the broad area alone of more public servants, there has been an increase--