Government Operations committee  Where did that come from?

Government Operations committee  I would first like to clarify something. You said that the proportion of francophones in the public service was 21%, but it is actually 31.8%. The proportion of anglophones is 68.2%. When it comes to the representation of anglophones and francophones, these are the figures we hav

Government Operations committee  I don't want to go too far in answering this question, but according to the Treasury Board's policy, in areas where services to the public are to be provided in both languages, francophones can obtain a response in French. For that to be the case, the area must be designated as b

Government Operations committee  Can you please repeat what page number you're talking about?

Government Operations committee  For women?

Government Operations committee  We don't have any positive discrimination programs. As Ms. Robinson explained, for all employment equity groups, there are mechanisms aimed at increasing representation in areas of deficiency. As for women, there are still discrepancies in certain occupational groups—such as eng

Government Operations committee  Exactly.

Government Operations committee  We have no specific target, but generally speaking, the policy dictates that representation within departments should reflect the workforce availability. When it comes to aboriginal groups, the representation is where it should be.

Government Operations committee  We can't say for sure that it would be strictly associated with the economic action plan, but there was more staffing activity at the time, and the figures don't necessarily adequately.... We can't disaggregate what is strictly from the economic action plan, but we certainly have

Government Operations committee  The take-up was not out of line. We had about 200 requests in connection with position changes. We are now compiling the data for the first year in which the order was used. Up to now, our checking shows that we have no major problems. Of course, we will compile the data at the e

Government Operations committee  As Ms. Robinson said, we made changes to the priority system in January 2012. We made a series of technological updates to the system to improve the processing of files, the placement and the assessment of people who should be placed as priority persons. We have increased our ca

Government Operations committee  Placing people takes more or less the same time. We reassigned 956 people last year, for a total of about 2,900. We continue to act as the requests come in, given that we must also always have positions available so that we can place people. Our efficiency rate in placing people

Government Operations committee  I couldn't give you the exact number of questions or even the number of pages. It's web-enabled, so it works through a series of questions and sub-questions. Depending on how you answer, some questions will lead you to others.

Government Operations committee  Yes, it's something along those lines.

Government Operations committee  Do you mean for political activities?