All right. Then I'll ask the chair if Mr. Harris could provide us with the average time that we have right about now. If you want to categorize it, I'm fine with that. I'm just wondering where we are now.
Again, to go back to what my colleague was talking about, my understanding is that the backlog now is about 50,000, which is up 60% in three years. If we keep doing the same thing over and over again, guess what, I don't think we're going to get to where we're going.
I see there is more money being put in there. According to the PBO, VAC's hiring plan will take two years to implement, and it's going to decrease the backlog by 10,000. Yet his plan would wipe out the backlog completely in one year.
What kind of direction have you gotten from the minister's office on how to move forward with this, and who's making the decision on how to move forward? Are you getting some specific direction from the minister? Who are we going to trust here? I hate to say that, but our veterans need to trust somebody to move forward to get this backlog cleared. Are they going to listen to the non-partisan PBO, or are they going to listen to the minister's office?
You're aware of those statistics. What kind of actual direction are you getting from the minister's office? As my colleague was saying, are you able to provide us with the strategy and the plan for the specifics? I'm extremely concerned that we're going in the wrong direction here.