It's been said that a consultant is someone you give your watch to and then pay him to tell you the time. I think there's a lot of truth in that.
Any time you are contracting a job in the federal public service, that person doesn't have the duty of loyalty any more. We expect certain provisions in Canada, bilingual provisions, say. All those things go out the window. In addition, the concept of the middleman comes up, and then the middle middleman. So in a sense, the person doing the work at the very bottom is really making a very low wage. And if that's going to be in a community, then the community suffers as well.
It's spiralling downward, if you ask me.