Government Operations committee  No, no. I understand.

Government Operations committee  I don't know the actual number that translates into, but I could help, Chair, if I were to add that we do see normal attrition in retirement going on in the department. Those were the numbers that I referred to in my opening comments: in the order of 950 who will retire and then

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I am joined today by Ms. Gina Rallis, who is our assistant deputy minister, human resources services; Ms. Carolina Giliberti, who's the senior ADM for service management in Service Canada; and my chief financial officer, Mr. Alfred Tsang. I am very

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The first two priorities, demand-driven skills development and fostering the partnerships with the private sector and with the governments in the territories, are really working out of this vision of sustainable long-term employment and the training that wi

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I think that's quite right. Depending on the baseline circumstance of individuals in those communities, temporary work may be better than nothing at all, but what we're really after is the development of long-term employment prospects that flow from long-term sustainable eco

Public Accounts committee  In fact, Mr. Chair, as I have just said, it is our belief that the people living near economic development projects will be able to benefit from those developments. In other words, when economic development projects are carried out in a northern region, developers will first look

Public Accounts committee  There is a wide range of trades. They will typically be those that flow from resource development. Some of my colleagues can speak more knowledgeably to the type of economic activity that is forecast for the north. It would be substantially in the resource sector. These undertaki

Public Accounts committee  Well, I think the vision here is that increasingly as economic development occurs in the north, the people of the north themselves benefit from that activity. The historical pattern, not entirely but probably too frequently, has been that when there's development, trained people

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. HRSDC has an important history of working with the government and aboriginal communities of the NWT. We acknowledge that the territorial government and aboriginal communities are best placed to design and deliver programs and services that meet