Mr. Speaker, I address my supplementary question to the Minister of the Treasury Board.
Reviewing is one thing, we want action after the review. The government is sending all the wrong signals to its federal officials. How can we expect the bureaucracy to spend more responsibly when the executive assistant to the minister of fisheries received a $31,000 severance package for four months-or seven months even, I could certainly live on that-and is not even required to repay a penny when he is rehired to the same position several months later?
My question is for the Minister of the Treasury Board. How can the government dare to ask Canadians to tighten their belts? What part of fiscal restraint does he not understand?