translate English to French: the Forces to perform their primary duties was 83,000, Treasury Board could raise this ceiling by a few hundred so that more service personnel could take language courses, and so that tasks relating to B and B in the Forces could be performed without substantially affecting their operational effectiveness. With the program submitted to Treasury Board, the Forces thus obtained 536 military (plus 160 civilian) person-years.
On constatera, par cet épisode, que les Forces ne sont pas le seul organisme gouvernemental à informer trop tard les principaux concernés par des changements.