Government Operations committee  All I would say is I think you make a very valid point about the feeder pool. As we think about how we get into better planning so that we know when a short-term type of hiring approach is suitable for operational needs versus when we need to do a more thoughtful, reflective proc

Government Operations committee  I want to add two thoughts, because it's obviously very, very important. In some of our management and leadership development programs, they are smaller scale, things like the management trainee program, the career assignment program, and even the accelerated executive developme

Government Operations committee  What you said is absolutely right. For any term positions of less than three months, those people, plus casual employees, would not be counted under the act. We wouldn't actually be able to count those numbers.

Government Operations committee  I believe that in a lot of the processes run by the Public Service Commission, they will actually ask that question on the poster that goes out; people can identify that way as well. So there are ways of doing it, but, as Madame Jauvin says, it may vary depending on the competiti

Human Resources committee  Perhaps I can start and give people a chance to rest their voices. Within the federal government.... Before I arrived in this job, I was at National Defence for four years. I was the ADM responsible for construction for the Canadian Forces, and one of my colleagues was the champ

Human Resources committee  Yes. An announcement to that effect was made yesterday. The figures for the Agency are accurate. However, the policy on the duty to accommodate employees with disabilities working in the Public Service of Canada, which I described to you earlier, is not affected, because every fe

Human Resources committee  I will, Mr. Chair, thank you. I will take the committee through the deck. This is the deck that has shades of teal, green, and white. I have seven minutes. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. First of all, I want to thank you for giving me this oppor