Madam Chair, there has been a great deal of exaggeration from some quarters as to the number of jobs that will eventually be declared surplus and those individuals who have an affected status.
I would like to go back and show my colleague how wrong the opposition was a year ago when we issued 776 affected letters. It portrayed this as 776 jobs lost, individuals on the street. In fact, no permanent employees last year lost their jobs. There are still 193 staff being replaced as attrition takes our numbers down. However, again, where it was exaggerating and fear-mongering about—