Thank you for the question.
My answer would have two parts. One is a shorter part and one is a longer part.
I'm just conscious, Mr. Chair, of the time.
When I was last here on March 5, I talked about the population of PCO as of March 1. I talked about our workforce in terms of two pieces: one, the core folks who work at PCO, and then the folks who come and go who are what we call determinate employees or folks who are on assignment for other departments. At that time I explained that we had 855 employees in terms of our core workforce. The remainder were 72 folks who were determinate or on assignment for other agencies.
A month later that has gone down, and I can tell you that as of April 1, which are the numbers I have, our core population was more or less the same. It was down one to 854, but that temporary population has gone down to 56, for a total of 987, combining the two. The total at March 1 that I gave you had been 1,017.
That is the first part of my answer to your question.
I believe you asked in your question as to whether there had been other initiatives affecting our workforce at PCO, and there have been, as a result of the announcements in the budget. I am happy to speak to those now or later on.