Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I suppose in my statement I laid out the problem and the answers. The reason I did that is for regular people with common sense, it's really hard to believe that a government that runs a billion dollar budget, that were given the money to pay for these retroactive payments, that they could not find any resources within to accommodate this extra task and to say that it was a budget-cutting measure or that it's a lack of money. That doesn't make any sense at all. Maybe it speaks to a lack of an efficient computer system. What kind of payroll system do we have? We have millions of dollars going through the payroll system, and a person has to actually go file by file, page by page, to look at all the hours of work. This really speaks to a non-functioning system.

Mr. Speaker, in my private conversations with him, I have asked...