Mr. Speaker, my question is for the President of the Treasury Board.
The Auditor General says that the workforce adjustment directive must be changed if the government hopes to reduce the size of the public service. The minister is negotiating with the unions now to do just that. However the president of the largest public service union in Canada said: "We obviously will never agree to changes that would weaken the workforce adjustment directive".
Could the minister explain how he can change that directive to reduce job security when the union says up front that it will never agree to it?