Veterans Affairs committee  If I could repeat what Ms. Lambe had mentioned earlier, a surviving spouse does have a priority entitlement under the existing regulations, and that is a higher order provision than the preference that is being discussed with regard to this section.

Veterans Affairs committee  Under the current scheme of the PSEA, priority appointments are not subject to recourse to the public service staffing tribunal. My understanding is that this is a consequential amendment to section 87 of the PSEA in order to ensure that the appointments of persons with the medic

Veterans Affairs committee  I can say that we have thought of that situation. In preparing to draft the regulations we are looking at ensuring that, if there was a determination made at a later date and the release was due to medical reasons attributable to service, the entitlement would start counting from

Veterans Affairs committee  The important thing about the duration of the priority entitlements of the second five-year period is that by making it retroactive it is a completely new period. So if somebody already has had their priority entitlement period, and it came to an end in April or May or June of 20

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. With regard to surviving spouses, we do have a priority for them in the public service employment regulations currently. It applies to the spouse of an employee of the public service, or a member of the RCMP, or a member of the Canadian Armed Forces w