Next, about internal services costs, the government seems to say that 70% of the cuts are to back offices, and at the same time the government seems to say that internal services costs are only back office costs at a departmental or at a larger level, whereas within programs they are not considered internal services costs. So how are we supposed to measure whether you have achieved 70% of your cuts through back office reductions?
Evidence of meeting #82 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was million.
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