Mr. Speaker, I think we have a bigger problem than one of a partisan label.
I appreciate my hon. colleague raising the issue of using outside contractors as opposed to people within our civil service; so, McKinsey, Deloitte, all of them. We saw a real increase in contracting out that started around 2005 with the idea of getting rid of individual service providers within each department and just having a 1-800 Service Canada number. We saw the same thing happen with the decision to outsource payroll and got IBM to supposedly save us a lot of money, but it cost us over $5 billion. I think we need to have accountability at multiple levels from when we started deciding we were better off contracting out. I would ask my hon. colleague if his party would want to take another look at some of the mistakes of the past.