Mr. Linklater, forgive me for cutting you off, but I'm short on time.
I'm very familiar with the federal public service. It is made up of smart and talented people with considerable expertise. Some 300,000 federal public servants work hard managing government operations and programs, day in and day out.
Given your existing organizational resources and your plan, can you tell me, today, when we can expect to have an effective system capable of processing all pay transactions? I'm not referring to a system that relies on all kinds of stopgaps and workarounds.
When will you be able to pay federal workers correctly?