Thank you.
First, I want to thank you and all of your colleagues and all of the people who you work with for your service to Canada in the public service.
There's $800 million more for external consultants here, which I believe is work that should be done by public servants like yourselves. Now it's going to be $21.4 billion to be spent on external consultants. This has gone up fourfold under the Liberal government since 2015. It doubled under the Conservative government. It's risen tenfold from a decade ago. It's a runaway ship. We know consultants are in it to make sure they've got work for themselves, so I've got some questions.
Can you maybe tell the committee when staffing plans will be developed and released for departments? How many of them will or have been developed by outside consultants or with input from them?