We had no system in existence to provide such a payment. In fact, we had no system that linked together these various databases, including the veterans database, the CRA's DTC database and the payments through the CPP or Quebec plan, from which we had to get data.
We are very sorry it took as long as it took, but what I can tell you is that in normal times, for us to construct a system from scratch, as we had to do, that could could bring these together on an automated basis, it would normally take an estimated two years to do in peacetime, and yet the team found ways to do it in, I think, 17 weeks at the end of the day. I know 17 weeks was too long for people, but I think there will be awards for the record time we went from literally a computer system having to be built from scratch in an automated way to pull, test and do this. It's quite miraculous, but I appreciate that the minister has made it clear that she does not want to be in a position in the future where we have to build new systems to do this and that we should make the investments necessary to have these in place.
But, Cliff and others did miraculous work on this to get it done as quickly as was humanly possible.