Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, the member has brought up several points. I can try to answer some of her questions. Concerning the new performance management system, which I described earlier, it is true that this is not the first time that we have attempted to manage the performance of public serv

Government Operations committee  I am referring to the 110,000 members of the public service...

Government Operations committee  ... who participated. I used the word “survey”, but in fact it was not a survey as such. It was the Blueprint 2020 process. We invited public servants to share their perspectives on the public service and tell us how to move forward.

Government Operations committee  As I have said, more than 110,000 people participated in this process by sharing their perspectives and their comments on the future of the public service.

Government Operations committee  110,000 members of the public service participated in the process.

Government Operations committee  I believe that the clerk said at the beginning of the meeting that we used a number of tools to engage public servants from across the country in the Blueprint 2020 process. For example, there were round table discussions in the departments. We used a new tool, Web 2.0, as well a

Government Operations committee  In our system we have a deputy minister who's known as the chief human resources officer. That position is within the Treasury Board Secretariat portfolio and the chief human resources officer is really our lead in our relationship with the bargaining agents. So the CHRO, our acr

Government Operations committee  —in terms of the role of the performance management regime, and in addition within individual departments. For example in the Privy Council Office, I co-chair with the bargaining agent our National Labour Management Consultation Committee. We had a session at one of our recent me

Government Operations committee  Perhaps, Mr. Chair, I can try to get into some of the detail of how we're rolling it out. This is a brand new directive that came into place as of April 1 of this year. I think we're in our first year, our pilot year, of how this is going to go with a standardized approach across