It is beautifully written, and it's very carefully written, but it doesn't tell us very much, with all due respect. Your massive, mega portfolio--I remember when it was cobbled together under Lloyd Axworthy and people thought it was perhaps too massive--has been a favourite target for raiding when governments get into trouble.
Marcel Massé, when he needed to try to balance their books, raided the $30 billion surplus in the public service pension plan, with no negotiation. He pulled it out. This government, when they needed the $54 billion surplus in the EI fund, just made it so.
You codified it. You made it legal, essentially, by establishing a new fund.
They've always looked at HRSD to balance the books, because you deal with some of the biggest numbers. You're at $44 billion in the 2010-11 estimates. You have 27,000 staff. You manage billions and billions and billions of dollars. The government is looking to HRSD once again, I suspect, to help them dig their way out of this deep, deep hole.
What is the name of the committee you sit on with other deputy ministers?