Thank you.
It strikes me that it makes sense to look at an organization, to look at the expenditures that it has, to examine what it's doing, to look at each program and see if there are things that don't need to be done. But it strikes me that this is not what happened here. There was a decision that the government was going to cut this much and the department had to find it in their budget and then do it. I have an impression that the minister and the cabinet did not really do much to understand these programs before making these cuts. That's a very important point here.
Let me ask something of the groups here that have experienced these cuts, the groups affected. Here is how the minister described the impact of the cuts when she appeared before this committee last week: “If you think about your own personal budget, can you cut out a coffee a week? Because that's just about what it works out to.”
Can I ask for comments on what she said from those groups here that have been affected by these cuts. What's your reaction?