We cannot clearly say yet whether that will call for staff cuts. There will obviously be an impact on human resources and collective agreements here and in the Senate, but also at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We know that it is the agency responsible for the parliamentary precinct, outside the buildings themselves. I believe we should not have any spectacular expectations regarding budget and resource cuts. We have all experienced municipal amalgamations, for example, that were supposed to result in stupendous savings, but they never really saw the light of day.
This is a very complex situation. The financial situation regarding budget cuts also comes into play. What I asked the Sergeant-at-Arms and the security employees to do was to work with their colleagues to target security deficiencies and to see, first, whether there were measures to correct those deficiencies that did not require a major investment of resources. I asked them to see whether we could proceed toward a unified security arrangement on a kind of step-by-step basis, if I may use that expression, because it is important not to proceed too fast, precisely in order to avoid causing long-term problems as a result of acting too quickly.