Okay, thank you.
We're here because in your report you said how we got here. Now we're asking how we make sure that it never happens again.
Madam Lemay, in her opening statement, showed that the department is putting in measures to make sure that this doesn't happen again. It will obviously be to history to judge that, and to us to make sure it doesn't happen again.
One of the questions we're always asking is how this happened. Madam Lemay mentioned in her opening statements—your conclusion, Madam Lemay—that cost and timelines were prioritized and constrained the outcomes of this project, and that in this context, poor decisions were made.
Mr. Ferguson, in your opening remarks you said the decisions by PSPC to remove critical pay functions, critical system tests, and forego a pilot implementation of the system led to the failure of the opening of this project.
On one hand, we have Madam Lemay saying the cost and the timelines were why the PSPC decided to remove critical pay functions, critical system tests, and forgo a pilot implementation of the system.
Do you agree with that, Madam Lemay?