Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to pay tribute to the work done by my colleague Ms. Ratanski, who presented good arguments and described the committee's work well, work that is intended to improve the situation in this area.
I want to welcome you, Mr. Parker, and your eminent colleagues.
Earlier I was quickly reading over the Auditor General's report. Sometimes the Auditor General likes to give good news, but if he wants to find the solution to a problem, sometimes he has to take the bull by the horns. One sentence in his report surprised me. I am paraphrasing, but he said that if Shared Services Canada had been a private company, it would have lost all of its clients. This is worrisome for taxpayers when one thinks of the services provided by the departments.
Just to situate the discussion, I wanted to ask you the question raised in the report. Does Shared Services Canada still have more that 6,000 employees?