Thank you.
I know that the chief of the information office is currently looking at the IT resources. They have stated that we are short by 8,000 employees in the IT offices. That alone is quite alarming, since we only have approximately 17,000 IT workers across Canada.
It doesn't surprise me to see those quotes, because when you look at the budgets and the plans that come up from the departments, you see that the overall resource plans for human resources of the public service are not there. They do not want to increase their footprint of public servants, for whatever reason—we're not sure. However, we do see their plans on other budgets that are increased on a yearly basis in which they are able to contract out resources through those budgets and not the public servant budgets.