Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, witnesses, for being here today.
In your presentation you stated that $28 billion went to personnel and $26 billion in consulting professional services and other. How much flexibility does this government see in that $28 billion? Where exactly do you see it coming from? How much of it will be coming from attrition, through non-renewal of temporary workers? My concern is that we see this coming down. As Mr. Martin said, how is this going to affect the services we get, and what can the average Canadian expect from these cuts?
As far as services go, I do not necessarily mean the dollar amount, but the real services. An example is a passport. That's something we do through our office quite often. We don't have any passport offices in northeastern Ontario. Someone comes in. They know they have a certain cost for a passport. They know it's going to take five to six weeks. How is that going to affect them?