Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We're having a discussion here in committee.
Several of my questions have gone unanswered. The witnesses may all tell us that they will provide us with the requested information in writing, but we don't want to increase our workload, because it's already heavy enough.
I'm going to go back to the earlier question. As a business person, I'm trying to get a sense of the government's goals: Do they want to break even, find efficiencies, take something away or add something? That's my sense, but we have to remember that the 360,000 public servants are human beings and that there are also a lot of people hired on contract.
How does that work on a daily basis? Does the minister give you information from his mandate and you have to apply it? What happens next?