Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The department has acknowledged the observations that the Auditor General made on that plan. The fact I would point out is that in 2007 the department was faced with a choice. It could have deferred the implementation of that pension plan until the new IT systems were built, until all of the staff were perfectly trained, and until everything was perfectly set to implement that plan, which would have taken some time, or it could have implemented the plan at the time, giving reservists the comfort that the plan was in place but recognizing that there would be growing pains. In fact, there have been, and the department has acknowledged that.
Over the last year the department has in fact increased by over 50% the number of people in the administration who are charged with administering that plan. It has developed a remediation plan, in fact, to speed up the processing of reservists' files and is doing what it can on a very old legacy IT system to expedite the movement of those files.