Government Operations committee  Pardon me, there were 109: 60 were recruited by Public Works and Government Services Canada, and 49 were distributed among the other departments. They are full-time employees.

Government Operations committee  I can give you an example. I am an Industry Canada employee. I have been working at Statistics Canada since October 2006, and I still am. There are four of us helping them out. It is just chaos over there. Of course they're not talking about that in the newspapers, but they're so

Government Operations committee  We applaud our employer for the efforts being made to develop, first, systems that will streamline the transactional portion of our functions and, second, self-serve systems for managers and employees. What concerns us is the timing and the impact it will have on our positions.