Mr. Chairman, some of the stories that Members have heard — and, again, we waited three weeks to actually get any information from the government in terms of the positions that were being impacted. I'm just wondering how that could happen. How could it take three weeks for the government to let Members know which positions were being impacted?

Some of the stories that Members have heard from constituents, where they're put into a situation where it's every man for himself or every woman for herself. There are three positions left in a shop and there are four people there, so somebody…. It's like playing human resources spin-the-bottle or whatever to see who's left standing at the end of the day. To me, that's just not a humane way to go about a reduction exercise. There are a number of these stories out there, Mr. Chairman. Also, there are stories out there where departments, if left to their own devices, are going to go after people they don't like or after people they've had run-ins with in the past. There are examples of that out there.

Again, I'd like to ask the Minister what he has done to ensure that every possible scenario was covered in this so that that type of scenario doesn't play itself out. I know it has played itself out, so obviously we've failed somewhere, Mr. Chairman.