Statement made on 14 December 2011 by Senator Percy Downe
Hon. Percy E. Downe:
Honourable senators, I have a supplementary question.
Senator Mercer is getting the information from material tabled by the Leader of the Government, in September of this year, here in the Senate. That is public information and I urge senators to check the record.
That information indicated that the Treasury Board, for the three previous years when the government was expanding federal government employment across Canada, which was prior to the cuts currently under way for consideration, it reduced federal government employment in Atlantic Canada by over 400 positions, relocating many of those positions to Ottawa.
Why, when the government was expanding in Ottawa by thousands of jobs, and expanding across Canada, were federal government positions being eliminated in Atlantic Canada?
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