Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I think each and every one of us in our own ridings would have at one point or another had an infrastructure program lapse and worried about whether the money was going to carry through to the next year.
On Mr. O'Connor's question on salaries and the cutbacks and the loss of jobs, I'll lay it on the table. One of my huge concerns is that I always find that when there are cutbacks, regardless of the political party that's in power, Ottawa tends to look after itself and the outlying regions seem to be the ones that take the brunt of the cuts in the front-line service workers. In my humble opinion, I think we have far too many managers and not enough workers. Is there any way you could give us a comparison in terms of—and it's related to Mr. O'Connor's question—the total salary for the public service managers and front-line workers in say, 2011-12 as compared to today? I understand completely why you're asking for more money, because those decisions that were made dropped off and we're now back to normal. But I hear that there's 20,000 fewer public servants and you hear all different kinds of different numbers in moneys.
Is there any way of getting a comparison between total salaries for the federal government employees of the public service in say 2011-12 and this year?