This is a tough one. We have a group of employees with disabilities who we need to transition from one job into something that provides meaningful work. What the ESDC has done is extended the contract for this group of workers for a year so that we can work within our other programming to provide them with meaningful work.
As they were advised, and as we know, the work that they had been previously doing is no longer operationally required. It sounds very cold, but it's not meant to sound that way.
We want to find meaningful work for these workers, so we have extended their contract for a year. During that year, we're also going to work with them and organizations around them to ensure they can transition to other meaningful work because we know that Canadians with disabilities are amongst the most underemployed in our country. We don't want to lose this group of very talented individuals from the workforce.