Mr. Speaker, the minister's excuse for closing the Vegreville processing centre and moving it to a Liberal city riding is nonsense.
He claimed there was a strong business case and cited efficiencies. He also said that the union agrees, but prairie PSAC reps say, “This has nothing to do with workload or the capacity of these employees to deliver service.... The reasons given by department heads were trivial”. They confirm that senior officials said that no cost analysis was done. They call for a reversal of this edict.
How can Vegreville believe anything the minister says?