Thank you.
Mr. Shillington, I want to make a comment and see if you agree. You made the analogy about the mistakes in this area that would not have happened if it had been a business. We have to admit that mistakes can be made in business. To make that analogy almost seemed a little unfair.
This will bring me to my question. This legislation is here because mistakes have been made and people want to correct these mistakes. There have been problems with trying to identify those who qualify for some of these benefits. Would it be a mistake not to make sure this goes through? This is a technical bill. It will be a very good bill to move forward on.
You brought up the difficulties with CPP, and you made comments that there should be changes. The difficulty would be that there can't be any changes to the CPP without two-thirds of the provinces being in agreement. No changes can be made to the CPP without that. In fact, this proposed legislation has to go back to those orders in council. It is not in our purview. We're not able to make those changes.
I'm trying to make this brief. I really want this to go through. It is important. I'm hoping people like you will help us to streamline it and make it more efficient so that we don't have these mistakes of the past. You have cited these as mistakes that could only happen in the public service, yet I think that was a little unfair.