Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today and for taking part in our study on employment insurance reform.
My first question is for the Canada Revenue Agency officials.
I realize that you do not administer the EI program, as you pointed out, but I still have a question for you. The CRA was called upon to administer all of the temporary or emergency benefits that were introduced—you came up with their names, in fact. You will, in all likelihood—and you can confirm whether this is true—have to administer the three new measures that were recently extended by regulation. On top of that, tax season is almost here.
You said that the challenge you faced was delivering the benefits in a timely manner. As you know, there were problems. People had to wait seven or eight weeks for a decision on their Canada response benefit application. People had numerous problems involving the Quebec parental insurance plan and alignment with the new benefits.
Would you say those long wait times are behind us now?