The minister said there will be no job action. There will be no labour force adjustment whatsoever at Marine Atlantic. There will only be new hires. There will be no early retirements, no severances. They will not be required. The president of Marine Atlantic, Wayne Follett, said exactly the same thing to everybody in Newfoundland and Labrador through the public airways.
Are you confirming to this committee, while we study supplementary estimates (C), that a provision allowing Marine Atlantic to engage in severance, early retirements, and other measures, costed measures, which reduce the quality of service and the number of personnel at Marine Atlantic, was an unnecessary inclusion in the main estimates of Transport Canada? Are you saying that, because it's not even being contemplated, that particular inclusion under vote 40c is really unnecessary?