With all due respect, Ms. Chabot, I never said there were no problems. I was saying that the figures needed to be clarified. I believe that the figures you are putting forward exceed the real numbers. I have always said that it is unacceptable for a person to wait six months. There is no doubt about that.
I have applied for the funds, and they are already in the budget. We don't have to wait for it to be accepted, because it was in the fall economic update, which is the equivalent of a budget. The point was indeed to improve the situation.
The backlog you are talking about is not people waiting for benefits. A majority of them have received their benefits, but there are changes that need to be made in their file. For some people it's one payment more or less, but in the vast majority of cases it's personal information that we have to update. These are not necessarily people who are waiting for benefits.
Service Canada's main objective is to ensure that people receive their benefits as quickly as possible. For me, as for you, the most important thing is to fix the system. What we see...