Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the two ministers who are with us today.
My first question is for the human resources minister and has to do with the plans and priorities set out in the estimates. According to those plans and priorities, there is a large gap in your department's forecasts for 2009-2010, in terms of the plan's administrative costs. These forecasts drop by 5.7% and 5.4% as compared with the forecasts for the two previous fiscal years, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.
How do you explain the gap between the forecasts for 2009-2010 and those for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009? I should point out that this is only for the administrative costs of the plan.