Once again, it is difficult for me to explain why it happened, but those are our audit findings.
Public Services and Procurement Canada initially felt that there were issues concerning 82,000 employees and that it would resolve those issues in October 2016.
The department did not know that the issues were more serious than it originally thought. It took time for the department and the Treasury Board Secretariat to realize that a governance structure would have to be implemented. It was only at the end of our audit period that those two organizations started to implement the necessary structure. It's very important to have this kind of a structure and to have the department, the secretariat and the departments directly affected by these issues at the same table, in order to figure out a way to resolve the issues.