Extending the time is not within our purview, because that's in the act and the regulations.
We have worked very assiduously in the department to try to improve what was a pretty appalling performance. We're sharing best practices with other colleagues. More people would help, but there's a very simple fact: there's a shortage in the labour market right now of qualified people at the mid-level. We can recruit and grow our own—and we're establishing a developmental program to do just that—but bilingual, security-cleared employees with enough experience that they can be what we call a team leader, responsible for a team of more junior analysts, are in very short supply. It's not only a problem that other departments are facing, but it's a problem that the Information Commissioner acknowledged in his last report to Parliament. So there's a labour market problem as well.
