Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Terrebonne for her speech, but, at the same time, every time I hear this, I shudder. I am a bit shocked, actually.
A few months ago, I replaced my colleague from Beauport—Limoilou on the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. The meeting was on hiring external consultants. This was around the time when we were seeing news reports about the huge number of public servants who had been hired. I asked whether it was contradictory to hire more public servants and more external consultants at the same time. The answer I got was that it was because the public servants did not have enough expertise.
That suggests the government was hiring public servants without expertise, then paying for external consultants to provide the expertise that the newly hired public servants did not have. I am trying to understand that. I am not sure if my colleague can explain it to me.