Thank you very much.
That's exactly right. It has been obvious to us. As I said, we have launched our process to fix the problem.
One of the challenges—and this is a challenge that I'm sure exists across other ministries as well—is that technology is changing at rates that are difficult for us to keep up with. One of the things we've noticed is that we've ended up using multiple systems to share, create and build document bases. In our system there are some systems that are simply built for storing documents. You don't create the document there. You just store the document there. In other places a different type of system is used.
In some of our missions abroad, they don't have the same bandwidth, for example, so they don't access in the same way. They choose to find workarounds that are more efficient—a different type of software, for example.
This is not acceptable, I agree. That's one reason why we have launched the process to completely overhaul the way we do this, but we do have an interim solution. It won't solve the fact that we have multiple systems that are creating documents, but for the purposes of being able to ensure that we always have access to those documents in a quick and efficient manner.... I had no concerns, to be honest, that we wouldn't be able to find the documents. I just knew that it would be labourious to find the documents. In the end, we did find all of the documents.
As you mentioned, the size of the budget that we're managing is something that we have to address immediately.