Thank you, Madam Chair.
The commitment made by the minister, Ms. Aglukkaq, concerning the backlog regulations on February 10, 2009, is as follows, and I am going to read it in English because it was made in that language:
“Our government is committed to eliminating the backlog by March 2010.”
So the minister told us that her objective, her political commitment, is to eliminate the backlog by March 2010. From what Ms. Boudreau said, her directorate's objective at the Department of Health was more specifically to start to address all files in the backlog by March 2010, to give them a file number, that is. Mr. Rosenberg, how is it that the minister's political commitment was not the message conveyed or understood by the directorate? Is it common practice for there to be dissonance between a directorate's objective and a minister's political commitment?