Thank you, Mr. Chair.
With respect to shared services, there is a request for $60.7 million, which is comparable to last year's amount. As for translation and other linguistic services, we are looking at net expenditures of about $6 million, of $6.3 million for 2017-18 and $7 million for 2018-19.
The number of full-time employees for these three years is anticipated to drop from 801 to 734, and then to 672. There will therefore be a reduction. I am left wondering why the planned expenditures for translation and other linguistic services would increase when the number of full-time equivalent employees is decreasing.
Is there an explanation for this?