Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll be supporting this motion. In brief, I have some experience setting up a conference-call centre from when I used to work for the federal government. I remember that one of the reasons they did this was the money they could save in travel. And the immediate relationship they could build, in the sense of doing work, was great.
I see this as an extension of that sort of thinking, where they have these fantastic tools. We were able to get people who are sick and whatnot to be able to get that relationship built up with experts and to do that work.
Mr.
Chairman, that can only work with the
appropriate staff and the appropriate people in place to do this. It causes me some concern at this time to see this deleted. I fear we would be putting that system in jeopardy, or the system could be put at risk. It takes a while to build up these things. As has been cited by other members of this committee already, the concern is there that the fully operational.... The success of this could be put at risk, and I don’t want to see that.
Mr. Chairman, I’m just going to close by saying not much more can be said because it’s already been said. I would hope the government would reconsider this. If this is the way they want to go, by
reducing this area, I would need a little more evidence at this time. I can’t support that. That’s why I’ll be voting in favour of this motion.