Thank you very much.
That was what I was hoping you would confirm, that you actually had used the format that was recommended for you to use.
I want to follow up on some of the questions that my colleague, Ms. Kusie, was asking in regard to the Phoenix pay system. I continue to hear from not only constituents in my riding but from my colleagues from all across the country that they continue to have concerns raised with them about the Phoenix pay system.
My colleague mentioned that there were $500 million in overpayments. I thought I maybe was exaggerating that number but I'm not. There are $500 million in overpayments. In that same article it also noted that, according to public accounts documents, the federal government paid $125 million in Phoenix-related damages to approximately 143,000 people during the 2021-22 fiscal year, and that in the previous fiscal year the federal government paid $400 million in damages to approximately 324,000 individuals.
We're looking at half a billion dollars paid out in damages as a result of what I would call the mismanagement of the Phoenix pay system. It has also been reported that the public service pay centre had 207,000 transactions beyond the normal workload, which is up from a low of 94,000 in March 2021. That's up in October from March 2021.
Can we expect to see another huge amount of Canadian taxpayers' money being paid in damages for the mismanagement of the Phoenix pay system?