I am not sure the minister heard my point, Mr. Speaker. I said that he was going to increase his own departmental executives by 10.
He said the other day: "We will continue to manage changing priorities by reallocating resources". This is not my idea of reallocating resources by adding more to his department. It seems to me that the resources will be reallocated not toward a reduction of the deficit but to his own department.
Does the President of the Treasury Board need to increase his executive staff by 15 per cent when he is reducing the total number of the federal civil service by over 20 per cent?