Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Garrison, for the question. I appreciate your concern for the civilian employees of the department.
I don't have an estimate for when problems will be resolved. Within our department, we have tripled our number of compensation staff from 50 to almost 150 across the country to provide one-on-one support to our employees. We are working with PSPC to move Defence to a new process, which we think will show an immediate, over six months, result and a 30% reduction in the number of backlogged cases and problematic cases. We're a big department, so setting us up for this new process is a significant amount of work and it takes a number of people. We are, as aggressively as possible, doing everything we can across the system to improve the situation for Defence employees and then, as you're aware and the minister is aware, any one-on-one case we receive we'll handle as a discrete one-off to try to resolve it.