Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning to our guests.
Mr. Sims, we have talked about quality. We have talked about the issues that have been raised by the Auditor General. One of the things I'm thinking about here is standards. Back in 1993, the last audit found, for example, “a lack of management information”. Here I'm talking about paragraph 5.64 in the Auditor General's report.
In 1993 you agreed to bring in time management for lawyers, and you finally got it going by 2006. It took 13 years to move on a fairly simple administrative program that lawyers would keep time sheets so they could charge their clients for the work they were doing--13 years.
How long will it be, Mr. Sims, before we get the department working properly?