As I mentioned earlier in my testimony, this is definitely a work-in-progress. There is a series of rules that are completely within our authority at the Treasury Board and the Treasury Board Secretariat, and we're making those changes as quickly as we can. In other cases, we're talking about simplifying rules that are in collective agreements, and we need to work with bargaining agents. We have, during rounds of collective bargaining, achieved some simplification, but we still have some room to go.
You will have seen in the audit report that the Auditor General enumerated the four areas that we're working on right now. Those are areas that right now require a manual transaction, so we are working with the bargaining agents to see if we can come up with solutions to resolve those. We tried to do it outside of the round of bargaining. We haven't yet been successful, and the bargaining agents have asked us to bring it to the table. We are right now in the next round of bargaining, so we will be discussing it there.
I am hopeful, let's just say. We have common cause with bargaining agents to try to make sure that we can pay our employees accurately and in a timely way. I will say that I'm hopeful.