It's my pleasure to spend time with the minister. I want to thank him for the kind and gracious comments at the welders' event last week.
You became minister in July 2013, and as you had indicated in your opening comments, you were really taken by the number of backlogged files that you had received from the pension review tribunal: 7,000. Madam Brazeau in her comments said last week, “We realized that there was a backlog on day one.... We have had discussions with the minister throughout.” There were 48 staff online then, where the full complement would be 74, but there didn't seem to be—you know you inherited the large backlog—that degree of urgency to address the staffing shortfall within the SST.