Again, I can only focus on the Privy Council Office, and I'm happy to do that. Within the Privy Council Office, we are absolutely looking for those who are impacted.... What I'm hearing in your question is the concern about people who have been impacted by the comprehensive expenditure review. Our head of HR is here, and that was one of the reasons he came with us: in case we had questions on the expenditure review.
We have put a lot of supports in place for our employees, whether it's giving them retraining or whether it's giving them opportunities to alternate with other employees and we are very much supporting that. Our goal is to place people. I'm pleased to say that at the Privy Council Office, through voluntary departures that we've had, we were able to cancel a number of our processes where people who might potentially lose their jobs wanted to stay. In many cases, we've been able to find volunteers who wish to leave and take advantage of the workforce adjustment provisions.
We still do have some employees who are impacted and we're trying to support. I can tell you that in my own branch I have I believe nine employees who are in that situation of wanting to find work. I'm meeting with each of them individually and talking about their skill sets and their interests and seeing if we can try to make calls on their behalf to other departments, if we can look at new opportunities for them to gain skills.
Employees who are impacted and choose to stay have a year to find another job, with our assistance. During that year, they have to be given what's called “meaningful work”. They can't keep doing the same work they were doing. One of the things we are trying to do is talk to those employees about what they would like to be doing in terms of gaining new skill sets.
Again, this week, I met with a number of people and talked about working in HR or working in Finance and giving them those opportunities—