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Government Operations committee  That's a very good question. I don't think it's our role to propose a plan, although we are happy to be involved in and consult on issues that they may not consider. As bargaining agents, we hear the pulse of our membership. We know what they want. We know the rules and regulatio

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  That is our desire. That is our wish. We want to be part of the decision. Remember, we are also connected with labour organizations in other countries that have gone through this experience. They want the best for their countries, and there is nothing wrong with transferring that

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  No, I wouldn't agree.

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  I'm going to. You know, they brought us in at the operational level to tell them about issues that needed to be fixed, for example, that have to do with the transfer of employees. But had we started before that in looking strategically at how this was going to happen, we could ha

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  I would agree, and I would agree we are also open and that we're in the very early days of this. Our members are very concerned and worried and we want to work to make sure this is a success.

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  Well, I mean you're talking about a much bigger organization that may have different levels of our IT members. In departments and agencies, some of these members get to a certain level and because of the size of the organization there is the inability to maybe transfer across dep

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  For us, in looking at where this is going and at our participation thus far, we're not comfortable in seeing that those savings will be achieved.

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  First of all, any savings in the early years would certainly be more likely to be achieved at the cost of labour. You used the term “firing”. I suggest that this shouldn't happen or couldn't happen. You can't just take an organization and choose to fire a whole lot of people. If

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  Absolutely, and we want to help with that in terms of identifying, from our membership, how we can find efficiencies.

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  The brief answer is that I don't really understand the question. I'm sorry.

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  I think there will be some job losses through attrition. That is inevitable, given the demographic. But I don't think the government can meet its targets with attrition only. We've been on the record as saying that. As far as the 320 to 20, it could be described simplistically t

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  It's been said that a consultant is someone you give your watch to and then pay him to tell you the time. I think there's a lot of truth in that. Any time you are contracting a job in the federal public service, that person doesn't have the duty of loyalty any more. We expect ce

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  As we said, the concept of shared services is a good one to create a new environment where we're going to be able to save money, where people have mobility. There will be opportunity, but we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. We want to make sure we can create the shared ser

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  We do have the expertise within the public service, and I'm sure that's the direction in which Shared Services Canada is trying to move, to bring that expertise to bear to make these changes. Once this is set up, and as it gets set up, there will be opportunities for IT professio

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett

Government Operations committee  We're supposed to hold a meeting, Liseanne Forand and I. We're supposed to meet every six weeks. Of course, that's ongoing, and tardy sometimes. We have a group that works together, our union members and management. That hasn't given us a huge wind yet. It has identified some s

February 1st, 2012Committee meeting

Gary Corbett