Thank you, Madam Chair, and I want to thank the witnesses for being here.
Madam Lemay, I want to put on the record that we have access to.... Somebody did an ATIP request on a presentation. You were probably not there yet, but this was a presentation given to the DM and the minister's office.
The curious thing that I'm looking at is on page 3, “Where are we on Technology?” I have the following bullets:
—Automated 80,000 business rules —Completed 16,000 test scripts —Completed performance testing —Some outstanding issues for which manual processes have been developed until fixes are introduced in May and September 2016.
At the bottom of the page is written, in bold letters, “Ready to go!” There's the same thing on page 4: “Ready to go!” There's the same thing on page 5: “Ready to go!”
We now know, today, that it was not ready to go, but had you been there, how would you have reacted to this information? Obviously the information given to your office at the time and to the minister's office was essentially that this system was ready to go.
I don't see any alternatives here. Was there an alternative to the Phoenix pay system, had it not gone forward at that time? With the information that we have today, do we know that?