Thank you.
We know that a consultant's job is to make sure that they have work and that they're going to create jobs for themselves in the future.
The public service is there to hold truth to power. It's important. One of the consequences of outsourcing that's been brought up by other experts in their testimony at this committee is the profit margin that these consultants make. The result is that Canadians pay more for services than less.
Has the Treasury Board Secretariat made any attempts to calculate or estimate the total value lost due to outsourcing contracts, and if so, what was the amount reached? I guess I'm specifically talking about the profit margin consultants take and the fees charged by middlemen who subcontract the responsibilities away.