Although the applications that really produce the cheques--or the warrants, as we call them--are written in COBOL, an old code, they work extremely well. We still have the in-house expertise to continue to support those applications. All three--CPP, OAS, and EI--are on that platform.
We've also modernized the mainframe platform that processes the applications and does all the work to make sure that the cheques can be printed. The reality is that we can produce them. We have the people, the knowledge, and the expertise. We have the technology in place at this point in time to continue to produce. That's why, as a result of the economic action plan, we were able to make improvements to the system over the last year and were also able to significantly raise the processing requirements while maintaining the levels of service that we've had historically.
I think I would suggest to Canadian citizens that they're in good hands. We are aware that we have some continued work to do. We have started the process. Today we have the people, the applications, and the technology to continue to deliver; the reason the future is so important to us is that as the systems and the applications get older, it's more and more difficult to make changes to those applications, so as the government sets new requirements for our particular department and as we align with those departmental priorities, it's more complex to actually start to modify that.