Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a few comments and questions for the minister. This is interesting, hearing from you that the objective this year is to create jobs. It's also interesting to hear that you want to improve the lives of Canadians. When on the other side last week we raised questions about employment insurance in government, where the hourly pay will be decreased to $10.25, and when we asked questions about the G-8, we never got the real answers. We see expenses made that should not have been made. At this point you said you will get $4 billion per year back inside the government from attrition on top of that, and I want to relate that to improving the lives of Canadians, improving the jobs of government employees.
How can the employees inside the government trust what you are telling them, that it will be by attrition, when we don't have real answers to that? We need to know where the cuts will be. We need to know what will happen to them and which departments will be affected. On top of that, we saw 92 jobs that were announced will be lost, auditors' jobs, and their job is to review the contracts of government to make sure there is transparency, to make sure there is accountability. So how can we trust the information we get based on all the information from the G-8 and what happened today?