I don't know.
I don't know if I have sufficient evidence to say the public service or the government are in bad faith right now. What I do know, legally speaking, is that the act came into force immediately on the day of royal assent or the day after, in 2023. It is of course to be expected—and a judge would agree—that the implementation of major legislative changes can take some time.
You will recall that, in the past year or two, there were issues at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Thanks to the work of the committee and the adoption of new linguistic requirements, it was difficult to replace senior executives.
A delay of six months is fine. A year is okay. Two or three years is not okay.
It is clear that the public service in general, specific departments and Treasury Board, which is now ultimately responsible for all of that, have had time to think about it seriously and develop effective structures. If the work has been done, I don't think we have seen the results or the evidence of that yet.