I haven't been in Parliament all that long, but in my two years in this place, we've brought this issue up several times. I've been told several times, in response to my questions as to when or how we're going to remedy this, that it will get better.
This is a dissatisfying answer, Mr. Huppé, to me and to the many public servants who expect to get paid for the work they do.
How is it that the Treasury Board is going to reconcile this? Some of the samples from the audit here are that 30% of employees sampled had an error in their basic or acting pay this last year compared with 28% in the year prior—so that's getting worse—and that 21% of employees sampled still require corrections to their pay as of March 31 of this year, an increase from 17% the previous year. How can we have confidence that our employees are going to get paid?