I thank you, Chair, and I thank the minister and her team for being here today.
I also want to give a special thank you to the amazing interpreters who seem to be able to interpret no matter what. Thank you very much for your hard work.
My first question, for the minister through the chair, is about the government's plans to reduce government spending by cutting public services. I'm wondering if there are departments where you're actually seeing any slowdowns. It seems like it's based only on saving money.
From what I've heard, most departments are fairly busy, and I think the general population has some serious concerns about understaffing in some of those realms. When is the government planning to cut jobs, and in what way will you be going through the different departments to make those decisions?