I appreciate that.
Now I want to move to a particular issue that was announced earlier this week in relation to the budget.
We know that much of the work in procurement and what happened with ArriveCAN was because of the deep tradition of outsourcing work to wealthy contractors with preferential access to the government. They have been profiting like a systemic rot since that time. It's a very difficult circumstance Canadians find themselves in, particularly due to the reality of the affordability crisis. It's hard for Canadians to witness a government not be able to track or even know the amount of money the ArriveCAN app cost.
I hope you understand and can sympathize with Canadians who are struggling right now to pay for their bills, rent and groceries while seeing the hard-earned dollars they are paying toward taxes not being used properly. I have sympathy for that. I would hope that governments since 2006, when this started increasing, could heed that message.
Why is it that over 5,000 public service employees were told on Tuesday that they may be out of a job? The government's excuse is attrition. This will hurt the public service.