Mr. Speaker, it is surprising to say the least that the President of the Treasury Board never mentioned anything about this to the Minister of Finance. In view of the finance minister's answer, I might add that one of these public service downsizing programs, the early retirement program, which was supposed to affect 4,000 employees and cost $300 million, attracted 1,500 more people than expected and ended up costing $800 million instead of the original $300 million, or almost three times more than expected.
How can the government explain that its early retirement program will end up costing almost three times more than expected?