Mr. McKinnon, thank you for your kindness and your gracious words.
The responsibilities are threefold: two of them are up to the Treasury Board and the third is up to the Canada Revenue Agency.
First, the Treasury Board Secretariat was responsible for negotiating an agreement with the bargaining agents.
Second, it had to make the content of that agreement public. Just now, I referred to clause 18 in the agreement. That was made public a number of weeks ago.
The Canada Revenue Agency was responsible for establishing whether or not deductions would apply. It was then supposed to inform the appropriate people about the nature of the deductions that would be applied to the compensation paid pursuant to the agreement that the Treasury Board Secretariat and the bargaining agents had negotiated.