Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Now I would like to turn my last line of questioning to the Treasury Board representative related to my first line of questioning on the pay system and our Auditor General's suggestions since 2016 to improve the system and the many hundreds of thousands of pay requests that the government is currently sitting on and the employees who are suffering for it.
My question is quite frank. What steps will the Treasury Board take in order to reduce the number of outstanding pay action requests? Maybe you have an example of how we've been able to take it down just this last year from 300,000 to 250,000, which is still a ridiculous number, but what steps are in place and what confidence do Canadians have, particularly employees, that these will be successful?