National Defence committee  I'd like to bring your attention to the proactive disclosure website. Years ago, on the proactive disclosure website, we used to be able to go into to see a bid as well on buyandsell.gc.ca. We would be able to see the work description and all of that detail. That is no longer available on the proactive disclosure website.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. One of the reforms we were looking at that I think would benefit the public service is.... Currently we're looking out for people to apply and they apply for a position. If they're successful after six months of going through the process, they go into these pools. When they're actually contacted to see if they're interested in a position that has come up, unfortunately they've found work somewhere else, because the process has taken so long.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I know that the chief of the information office is currently looking at the IT resources. They have stated that we are short by 8,000 employees in the IT offices. That alone is quite alarming, since we only have approximately 17,000 IT workers across Canada. It doesn't surprise me to see those quotes, because when you look at the budgets and the plans that come up from the departments, you see that the overall resource plans for human resources of the public service are not there.