Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, I would like to recall a saying that often guides my work and I hope also guides yours. The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. The most vulnerable people in Canadian and Quebec society are people who are receiving old age security or people who are unemployed and receiving employment insurance benefits.
What we learn in the Auditor General's report is that the computer systems that support those payments, which are essential every month for the most vulnerable members of our society, are on the brink of collapsing. This is very disturbing. It is why we are happy to have you here today and get a little more explanation.
You have started to tell us about the problems. Now that you have got a picture of it, now that you pretty much know what the problems are, what is being done to fix them quickly? That is what I am interested in today.
One of the important figures that was mentioned in your report, Mr. Hayes, deals with the percentage target that the government has set itself: 60% by 2030, I believe. At the present pace, if things continue as they are, the government will only reach 45% of the target, in terms of the modernizing it thought it could do.
Mr. Hayes, do you stand by that figure?