Mr. Speaker, these are very difficult cases. We are talking about the Canada pension plan disability program.
The fact is that we have a plan in place now to address the backlog by using specialists within the department in order to resolve as many of the outstanding appeals as humanly possible. That will reduce the number of cases that have to go before the tribunal. In so reducing the cases, we believe we can eliminate the backlog by the end of the summer.
As I said earlier, my officials indicate that we are on track to achieve that goal.