Mr. Speaker, if yesterday's announcement of public service layoffs was designed to quell fears and rumours, it was a dismal failure. Today the government has rubbed salt in the wounds of the public service by increasing the size of the cabinet just one day after announcing 45,000 job cuts in the public service.
The Minister responsible for Public Service Renewal put together a top level team of managers to tell him where to make cuts in the public service. Did he also put together a team of frontline workers to tell him where to make appropriate cuts in management?