That to me means two things. Earlier, Ms. d'Auray, from Treasury Board Secretariat, told us that all the deputy ministers have the same guidelines, the same approaches, but of which we have no knowledge.
Furthermore, how can we be sure that the employees of a department or, for example, of a Correctional Service Canada institution and the public living in its vicinity can be made to feel truly safe, and that cuts will not be made to the security, food and services that must be provided to inmates?
You will recall that there was an uprising in Kingston in 1995 because the deputy ministers had decided to cut back on services to the inmates. They were female inmates.
I would like to come back to Correctional Service Canada. I have CSC institutions in my riding. There are people there who are currently on loan to Haiti as part of the Government of Canada's efforts to put that country's correctional system back on track. Those people are not doing anything at the moment, because Haiti is under reconstruction. But there they are, getting a tan on the beach.
What can we do? How can we be sure that all departments will be treated fairly? There you have it!