Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would also like to thank the minister for finding the time to appear before us.
I am very pleased to be here today. I am also happy to see that a second federal building is being built in the Estimauville sector, in Beauport—Limoilou. Public servants will be relocated there, which will visibly improve things.
Minister, I listened carefully to your speech. I will focus on Shared Services Canada, a completely new initiative that requires a lot of brainstorming. It is not easy to achieve the goals that have been set.
One of the questions I have about the main estimates has to do with the redeployment mentioned in the 2014-15 Report on Plans and Priorities. This report tells us that Shared Services Canada anticipates that its full-time equivalents will decrease from 6,400 to 6,100 between 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. This drop will primarily affect the distributed computing services sub-program, which will experience a drop from 460 to 160 full-time equivalents.
What is the justification behind this significant drop? Are we talking about a program with a set term or a transfer to subcontractors?