Mr. Speaker, my colleague's question gives me an opportunity to provide a little background on what happened.
The Harper Conservative government made a lot of cuts to the public service, and some expertise was probably lost at that time. When the Liberals came to power, they started hiring en masse to recover that expertise, while relying on consultants to fill any gaps in the expertise.
That is how we ended up with one government that just wants to cut and another that just wants to hire and spend. Our money is quite simply being mismanaged.