As an example, it has now been six months since Shared Services Canada was established and it is still in the very early stages. The infrastructure is not really in place. The transfers have been made, but the work is being done as it was done in the past. So it will take a very long time.
According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers study, the work, and the savings, are going to start happening in 2015-2016. However, the government is looking for savings starting in 2014 in order to contribute to deficit reduction. So there are major problems and challenges in this area. I feel that working together with our members and going out to get the expertise will be important. The CS group has been making recommendations to the government since 2004-2005 in various forums, pointing out that the numbers of different systems and the increasing numbers of different platforms are not efficient. They cost taxpayers money and we should be moving towards shared services.