It was thrown out because it was going to be too costly. The universal classification system, which was supposed to take over our present job classification system, was thrown out because they felt it did not meet the needs of the government—Treasury Board.
Can I also say something else? We often talk about how our classification does not meet our needs, but, simply spoken, if we look under the definitions, we fall under this umbrella called AS. If you read the tasks or the duties that are performed under AS, there are maybe 20 tasks, and somehow we got thrown in there, but it's actually a category that represents people managing things, and that does not represent us at all. Therefore, we're not classified. We don't get points for the work we do, the intellectual effort, the level of communication, the responsibility when we're quoting people and advising people and counselling them. None of that is accounted for when it falls under the umbrella of managing things.
That may have worked well in the seventies, but it doesn't work well today with our present job classification. That is the simplest way I can say that.