Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, right now the department is looking at each of these individual occupations to try to understand why some have such a high turnover and others do not. It's quite an involved piece of work. At the time of the audit, they were trying to get down into that a little more.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we found that in effect the Canadian Forces were able to show some improvement. There was difficulty trying to get their trained effective strength up and to meet recruiting targets. You can compare the figures from our previous chapter in 2002 on recruiting targets wi

Public Accounts committee  When we looked at the retention, we tried to determine exactly how many people were leaving at a very high level. We did not break it down into which groups specifically were leaving--for example, visible minorities, or by language or by gender. We were only, at this stage, very

Public Accounts committee  Again, we were looking at the number of recruits who were brought into the process from a very high level, and we were determining what the issues were that were causing recruits not to make it to the end of the process. During our audit work, we highlighted those points of conce

Public Accounts committee  We have indicated in the chapter, and we'll draw your attention to page 60--

Public Accounts committee  In the English version. There is an exhibit--2.8--and it indicates all of the reasons why people would fall out of the process. National Defence has kept very good records on indicating why people do not make it to the end of the selection process, and those are the reasons gene

Public Accounts committee  We asked the question, what is “lost contact”? It was explained to us that the recruiting centre was no longer able to get in touch with the individual.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. We went in to do some work to find out where all the doctors were and what they were doing, and we were able to get information from the department on what the different positions were, who the general duty medical officers were,

National Defence committee  Thank you. We didn't look specifically at how the health care system was managed. We were very interested, of course, in understanding the process of management at the base level, where the base surgeon is responsible for seeing that all of the health care services are provided,

National Defence committee  It would provide some checks and balances.

National Defence committee  I think there are a lot of reasons why the health care system is a little more expensive. There are certain things that the system here is required to do that perhaps other systems don't pay for--for example, a lot of the training. But it would be helpful to have an accountabilit

National Defence committee  As I understand it, the study you're speaking of used the same data Statistics Canada used back in 2002. Of course, those findings are from that timeframe. I really couldn't give you an update. You'd have to ask the department where the situation stands today.

National Defence committee  Yes, we did. When we looked at how the different clinics had been staffed and why they had been staffed, we did note that some of the clinics had a lot of people coming in. Some doctors might see as many as 100 patients over a certain period of time, as I believe the chapter show

National Defence committee  When we looked at, basically, where are the doctors and what are they doing, our concern at that time was, why is there a shortage of doctors? We were able to find that a certain number of them were applying direct hands-on patient care in the clinics, but there's also a requirem

Public Accounts committee  If I may, Mr. Chairman, I'll answer that question. If I understand, you're asking about the $7 million and the $6.6 million. These were inventory counts. National Defence went in, basically to do a spot check: “This is what we expect to see. Is it there?” If items were not ther