National Defence committee  The next step in my organization, which is what we're hoping to roll across the Canadian Forces, is that if I hire somebody as class B, the next level up will have to review and approve that. But again, as we provide additional oversight, it means I need to hire somebody else to

National Defence committee  Agreed, as in anything. Right now, with the new software, we're taking it one step further to be more open and more transparent. If you were to see it—and I've actually looked at it in detail—it lists everyone vying for that position. That's open for everyone to see. It lists a

National Defence committee  Yes. You've got to come back to the Canada First defence strategy. The Canada First defence strategy has laid out the targets for the regular force and the reserve force. Within that discussion you then have to look at the issue of what they're speaking to. In most cases in the

National Defence committee  Monsieur le président, we can provide all that data to the committee.

National Defence committee  Every year, when we hold our merit boards--which are words to mean that a group of individuals at the appropriate rank level come into a room and look at the files for every occupation in the Canadian Forces.... That's infantry, armoured, and artillery at every rank level. We hav

National Defence committee  The way to prevent the second thing from happening is by doing what we're doing right now with the pilot in place, which is, to begin with, ensuring that reservists and anybody else coming for job employment have to come to a particular position or to one spot, that being the one

National Defence committee  Agreed.

National Defence committee  To answer the last part of the question, yes, at any point in time you have the opportunity to grieve on a particular position if you believe you were not treated fairly. To answer the first part of the question, which I think becomes the heart of this discussion, currently ther

National Defence committee  Agreed, but I would say that's not being done, because if you take a look--and I do own this part of the career process--every year we hold merit boards for each rank level. Merit boards are established and then people are promoted. That hasn't changed. Now we're just talking abo

National Defence committee  First of all, Mr. Chairman, I would like to say this. That happens at the lowest level, starting at the unit level. It is not just at the highest level. Majors, lieutenant-colonels, colonels, and generals at any rank level could do that. As long as they are in command of an orga

National Defence committee  If we're speaking from the vantage point of limiting a reservist's opportunities, it comes back to the comments made in the introductory remarks. All of the positions and posts are based on certain qualifications. Therein lies the challenge. The people with the best qualification

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, first of all, we will provide the information to the Committee. We'll give you all of the details posed here, including the number of regular force people who have gone on to become civil servants. The first question posed was perhaps across government, and that's

National Defence committee  It's about 20%, and from a force structural point of view that began a number of years ago, because reserves are an integral part of that structure. Exactly right, the numbers have come down. If you take a look at class B--and this becomes a complexity of the issue--those folks w

National Defence committee  Is the question alluding to the new software we've put in place?

National Defence committee  Over the last year we looked at some of these issues at the heart of class B hiring, and one of them was how we could create a monster.ca for reservists. It was done more for the reserves, not for us. That was the idea that drove us this way. We wondered if we could have a site t