Human Resources committee  I personally don't represent the employees of the Canada Revenue Agency. That being said, we are talking about the possibility of bringing together about 10 or even 20 departments within the same process. However, each department has its own automated system, and they do not nece

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. I think my experience has shown that anything less than a year is probably too ambitious. I am actually a product of the Social Security Tribunal, which amalgamated four tribunals into one, and that was done over the course of a year. It was ambitious and today it see

Human Resources committee  No, they haven't come to the union and had that conversation, so I don't know. The amount of $900,000 doesn't sound like a whole lot, in my mind, for what this is entailing. As I said, when I mentioned 30%, that was at an all-time low. If you can imagine that as an all-time low—

Human Resources committee  I'm not the best person to do that analysis. As the employer, it is important for the federal government to look at the impact of the program. Do you expect this service to apply to the provinces as well or just to the federal level? Will the municipalities be included, since t

Human Resources committee  My name is Steve McCuaig. I'm the national president for the Canada Employment and Immigration Union. I represent the workers who would actually deliver this service. I'm here to speak about the practicality of that idea in the bill. CEIU certainly is pleased to see a very though

Human Resources committee  I'll allow my colleague to go first.