According to what we were told, the federal government spent somewhere in the neighbourhood of $1 billion on that in 5 years. That is a lot for an employment agency.
At a time when the government has frozen the budget of virtually every department, and as you, yourself, say in your report entitled, Casual Employment: Sources and Practices: The federal government advertises casual and term job opportunities on jobs.gc.ca [...] open to the general public). Individuals with the necessary qualifications are placed in a pre-qualified pool. Sub-delegated managers can then refer to the list [...]
How can we reconcile a freeze on departmental budgets with the fact that we have spent a billion dollars in five years on agencies, when we have a site, which is open to the general public, that we can use to find qualified staff? Can you explain that to me?