Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to focus back on the CTF rather than on elections regulations. There was some suggestion initially that the minister was slow off the mark, and yet virtually all of the witnesses that have appeared before us commended the minister for acting as quickly as she did to address this problem. Obviously through her and your efforts, Mr. von Finckenstein, the parties did come back to the table and we have the funding restored to the CTF.
My question first of all is this. How long have these problems between the BDUs and the CTF been percolating? How long has that problem existed? How long has there been inaction on this particular file?