Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I share the concern of my colleague Mr. Dreeshen with regard to respecting taxpayers. That's why I'm quite worried about your diminished role due to these cuts as we go forward.
With regard to your budget-cutting efforts, you suggest that cutting your office administrative services by significantly reducing or eliminating positions will lower service levels. So lowering your service levels will simply lower the level of oversight of federal departments and agencies, when your goal is transparency and good management.
Are you not afraid that under a Conservative government that is clearly lacking in transparency on a number of issues, there may be some inherent danger in proposing this?