Do you ever wish you were the captain in Star Trek and could just say, “Make it so”, as the opposition seems to think you can?
The other question I have is this. We've seen that when we do wholesale computer changes at the government, we either get Phoenix—the Conservatives thought they could just go to a private vendor and have them rewire the computers—or get the NDP's response, which is just to hire thousands of public servants to process these and computer be damned.
We have to land the changes to EI at the same time we change the computer system. That's a large budget item that can't simply be done through a private member's motion. We need to attach a budget to the changes and we need to effectively transition between the risk of Phoenix and the risk of sustaining a system that's run on COBOL. That's the challenge we have to manage as we fix EI. That's what's taking so long. It's not a question of whether or not we can get it to Parliament sooner or later.