Human Resources committee  Certainly as I stated in my statement in July 2016, we reached an agreement with, at the time, Minister Brison, who is the President of Treasury Board, to restore our rights pre-Bill C-4. That certainly indicated to us a positive move for sure, and that's why we certainly welcome

Human Resources committee  Do you want to respond, Krista?

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the committee members for providing the Public Service Alliance of Canada this opportunity to meet with you on Bill C-62. The Public Service Alliance of Canada represents over 130,000 federal public sector workers. We welcome this bill that f

Government Operations committee  That is doable today, though, and you can't refute that. When regulators and administrators today have the right to delete unnecessary regulations, why isn't that done? That's the question that should be asked. Don't simply say that for every regulation we're going to create, you

Government Operations committee  No. I mean, you've certainly seen the cuts in resources. That's where we have certainly seen the cuts, especially in the last two years. The government cut food inspectors, and we've seen the result of that. Canadians have seen the results of that. The world has seen the results

Government Operations committee  There is, but you need the resources to do that. If you don't have the capacity to do that, then everything gets eroded. That's when we've seen, as you referred to, the many scandals. I can't understand how you can say that there's no compromise between business competitiveness a

Government Operations committee  That's what we'd like to see. As I said in my submission, that exists today. There is no need for this bill when the regulators have the right, and government has the right now to deem any regulations inadequate or unnecessary and simply delete them. That's what we believe. The p

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee for allowing representatives of the Public Service Alliance of Canada to appear before you this morning. My name is Chris Aylward. I'm the national executive vice-president for PSAC. PSAC represents public service workers who p

Human Resources committee  I'll share my time with Mr. Kingston.

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to appear here today. My name is Chris Aylward, and I am the national executive vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Bill C-4 would change health and safety protections t

Finance committee  The only real recourse we would have, of course, would be through the bargaining process. Depending on what the dispute settlement route may be, that would certainly be one. Even in the current process where Treasury Board is involved, and I'm going to speak to a specific group,

Finance committee  But I did say “for days”.

Finance committee  That's exactly what we refer to when we talk about the unilateral interference by cabinet, yes.