Government Operations committee  We have an unusual set of teeth, and that's what makes us unique. Unlike the Auditor General, whose role it is to audit and make reports, we are actually in the business of auditing and taking corrective measures. That's why in our reports to Parliament we have to say what we fou

Government Operations committee  That's a good question. Part of the $67 million on the recruitment and assessment services is for grouping these things together. That's a block of activities. A single piece in there is what we call the psychology assessment centre. These are the people who do the language t

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  No, they're paid out of the whole. Of the 1,000, we have about 250 direct on the recruitment and assessment side. Then the systems side is in addition to that, because those are fully loaded costs.

Government Operations committee  We do it for the corporate programs. So there's the student program, as I was saying, the post-secondary recruitment, and we run the job system, the www.jobs.gc.ca system, which is for the whole government. The big change in what has occurred was under the previous legislation d

Government Operations committee  They in fact don't have the expertise in running the processes. The decision-making is with the department. So what happened before is, for example, the executive appointments were all made by the commission, so we made the appointments. Now what's happening is we may run the pro

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  The way the act is structured, we can revoke the appointment, but we cannot revoke the manager. If the appointment is incorrectly done, we can revoke the appointment. We have, and we do. This goes back to what my costs are: all the decisions of the Public Service Commission are s

Government Operations committee  Yes, I can disclose that. I don't know the number right off the top of my head, but maybe I could come back to the committee and give you the numbers.

Government Operations committee  We would like to do that, not for the annual report that's coming, because that's now being written, but for the one after that. Some things are obvious. There is a lack of understanding of how to fill in the applications. It's a technical process in government; government peop

Government Operations committee  We know we have a problem at the senior level, in that they're not sufficiently represented. The high volumes in the numbers we have are below the executive level for all appointments. The number of the appointments at the executive level are running at six hundred a year, wherea

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  We don't deal with those appointments. A member of the armed forces must handle that.

Government Operations committee  We are only responsible for civilian employees.

Government Operations committee  No, that is not what should be understood. If I recall correctly, the problem is more widespread among military employees. We are only responsible for appointments and the staffing of civilian members. In such cases, language is one criterion that must be met in order to obtain a