I think it's important to position where the bargaining happened vis-à-vis the rest of the public service. Because of where we were in the time frame, many of the other organizations had already settled their collective agreements. I believe in December, when we wrote to the public accounts committee, almost 99% of represented public servants had already reached a collective agreement according to a particular pattern.
The difficulty for us at that point in time was that there was an established pattern. Even if we wanted to be able to deal with our employees with the same wage increase and to solve the wage grid, which was important to us because of the statements that we made in the past about the importance of accurate pay and timely pay in the context of the Phoenix system, we didn't have the mandate to be able to do that in this round. We worked with Treasury Board Secretariat officials to seek a mandate to increase pay that still respected the pattern that the government had to deal with.