Absolutely. I think my experience has shown that anything less than a year is probably too ambitious. I am actually a product of the Social Security Tribunal, which amalgamated four tribunals into one, and that was done over the course of a year. It was ambitious and today it seems to be okay, but it certainly had a lot of growing pains in the meantime.
If it's going to be as ambitious as that, that tells me you need to take at least a year and perhaps more. Again, I'm not clear as to what is being amalgamated. Will it be strictly the federal side, or will it include parts of the provincial and possibly the municipal governments as well? How many of the branches of the federal government would it bring together? It's difficult until we know exactly what the amalgamation is going to consist of, but at the very least it would have to take a year.