Mr. Chair, yes, the specialized unit is still in place, and it continues to review those cases. In addition, when we use the channels of communication with the tribunal to indicate what we are likely to decide, there is very good co-operation to remove those cases from the pipeline, and the government settles those cases under the auspices of the department.
In the future, we will not be likely to retain the unit per se; that procedure will be integrated into the decision-making process itself, and I fervently hope that at no point in the future will a process like it ever be required again.
One of the things we are doing in the action plan is to give our adjudicators in the first instance tools so that we actually engage with the clients and the stakeholders of this program to learn how to better take account of developing situations and developing medical conditions that could lead to a different decision over the course of the application from first application to decision.
Our expectation is that we will continue to be more attuned to that balance of probabilities and be more up to date on the tools that are available to adjudicators to help them make the right decision in the first place.