Thank you for that, Debi.
Yes, it's a great question. Last fall, the Public Service Alliance of Canada negotiated a settlement for [Technical difficulty—Editor] suffering. That happened last fall.
We had an opinion from the CRA saying that they believed those monies were taxable, because it was in the settlement of a grievance. There was a meeting on February 3 between the Canada Revenue Agency, PSAC and Treasury Board, and it was agreed at that meeting that PSAC and Treasury Board would issue to the CRA an agreed statement of facts. I'm going to say that again, an agreed statement of facts, not opinion, not analysis, an agreed statement of facts.
Treasury Board has failed to sign that agreement of facts. We just received the letter from the CRA two weeks ago and the CRA said that, as agreed, it would review its decision if it received an agreed statement of facts. It went on to say that since that hadn't happened, it would not review its opinion on the matter.
You're absolutely right. The Treasury Board has failed to agree to this statement of facts, and we're asking our members to write to Minister Duclos to ask him to sign the statement of facts. As I said, it's a statement of facts. They're not opinions; they're not analysis. It clarifies what is in the agreement, and that's all it does. The Treasury Board is refusing to sign that agreed statement of facts, and that's what's the issue here.