All right.
I am trying to understand the timing of what you are doing, the review of the foreign service directives that is under way and will be ending soon, because the new directives are to take effect on June 1, 2008, a month and a half from now, in relation to what the Department of Foreign Affairs is doing with its two-year project to adopt the PeopleSoft 8.9 personnel management software. How do those two things fit together?
I also have another question, this time for Mr. Edwards, in case I should run out of time.
Mr. Edwards, you mentioned that last year you set up a group that is looking at improving your IT capacity—over two years, because it's scheduled to finish next summer—and you've chosen PeopleSoft 8.9. I'd like to know how you arrived at that--whether it's commonly shared across all agencies or was by a competitive process.
That's one question.
Lastly, I have a question for the Treasury Board about an issue that the Auditor General may not have raised, but that concerns public servants who have to use a United Nations flight to travel abroad. I know of a case where an employee unfortunately died in the crash of a United Nations flight. The United Nations does not provide life insurance for our employees and is refusing to do so.
I would like to know who is looking at this issue, because it is a very important issue that must be dealt with, and I would like to know whether or not it has been dealt with. I do not believe it has. When our employees use United Nations flights abroad, they have no life insurance in case of a crash or accident. I hope this situation will be corrected.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.