Thank you, Mr. Chair.
One of the concerns I have is with regard to the folks who are being hired now. I keep hearing this again and again. You talked quite distinctly in the last response to me about how much training they're receiving and how they're going to have the capacity to make decisions and then, hopefully, once that training is done, to move things along more quickly, because they'll have that capacity. But they keep being called “temporary” workers. The PBO report was very clear that we need to hire significantly more than the 300 and that we need to continue to hire to address this issue.
Are they temporary? How long will they be hired for? If they're not temporary, will there be some sort of official announcement to let the world know that these are permanent workers who will be helping us address this backlog?