Thank you, Madam Chair.
Let me first apologize to the witnesses for my lateness. I had a private member's bill to present in the House. Today we were also honouring Madame Robillard, who announced her leaving, and several members got up to say some very nice words and to praise her for all her efforts for Canada over the years. By the time I got to my private member's bill, it was a little bit late, and I apologize for that.
I'm also new to the committee, but two things come to mind that have been raised at the committee and that seem of great concern. Maybe you can provide some further clarification on them.
The first area is classification and timely payments around compensation benefits. The other issue is turnover. Those are the two issues that I've heard over and over again people express some serious concerns about. Perhaps you could elaborate a little bit further on both.
Again, the first issue is classification and compensation, the timeliness of these payments and the benefits. That has been raised by several people. The second issue is turnover, and whether that's creating serious problems within the civil service. The turnover seems to be a little bit high.
So perhaps you can comment on that and give us some explanations so that we can understand this.