Actually, you're right, Mr. Chair, there's no need to respond to that.
At the end of the day, these decisions are not easy decisions. They're decisions that are made based on ensuring that we are delivering a top line service, and that our agencies are delivering it on behalf of this government and on behalf of Canadians in a way that makes sense.
I understand, for political reasons, that the opposition wants to support this motion. If this committee wants to work through this further, I'm prepared to listen as to how we might do that. But by simply saying that we should just be putting back what is going to be reduced, that doesn't answer the question of all of the things that I pointed out, of all of the things that the minister has responsibility for, and of all of the things the ministry has responsibility for in terms of delivering service and making sure it meets the objectives and standards it's supposed to.
Just to simply put a motion forward states the obvious; it states that this is a political decision. It speaks nothing to what the future is of these organizations or what they need to deliver in terms of service over the next number of years.