Veterans Affairs Canada had 3,947 employees in 2009-2010, and it will have considerably fewer employees in 2013-2014, when the number is projected to be 3,463. However, those projections do not take into account the cuts made in the last budget. Will the number of employees be revised downward again in the 2013-2014 Report on Plans and Priorities?
At the Quebec City office, in my riding and our region, 11 client service agent positions have been cut. Veterans regularly drop by my office to complain about the lack of front-line services. You have talked a lot about cutting red tape. It's true that no one likes to fill out forms, but there's nothing like having access to a real live person when we feel overwhelmed by a lack of answers. Will you revise the number of employees in the report?