Government Operations committee  What we're looking for is something that's integrated with the business planning in departments, and that's sort of looking forward. Based on the demographics, based on what you know and the pattern of your people's movement, we would expect that hiring processes are put in place

Government Operations committee  May I make a couple of comments on your introductory comments? On the basis of timing, I'm happy to come to this committee, and we have been exploring the best way to do this. I have to table this report in Parliament. Last year we tried to brief the committee in camera, but the

Government Operations committee  I'd be happy to consider this a briefing and come back to answer any of your questions. On the phantom positions, I am reluctant to give names. If you put me in camera and tell me to give you the names, I will give you the names. I am here to serve you. On the national area of

Government Operations committee  Currently it's all EXs, all executives, the two levels under executives, and now the officer level in the national capital area. On April 1, 2007, it's going to be all officer level positions across the country. The problem is volume. I was telling you that we have three-quarte

Government Operations committee  Yes. I believe the other thing we have to do is have a role at the Public Service Commission to make pools of people available. The response is, “Well, I'm sorry, we just don't have anybody who can do this job.” Well, I have a pool of people who can do this job for you. I'm g

Government Operations committee  I'd have a hard time giving you that, but I'll keep it in mind. If you ask me again in a little while, I'll be able to give you an answer.

Government Operations committee  It's a computer system.

Government Operations committee  We had to do a fair bit of work, because there are things like Monster.com and these big systems. We couldn't actually use something like that. What we ask managers to do is create a series of questions that tell about the kind of job, the skills, and the interests and aptitudes

Government Operations committee  We've done pretty well on three out of four.

Government Operations committee  I have to say that overall, in the case of aboriginals, we've met the target of workforce availability—remember, that's what we're saying. It's not any other kind of target but getting them up to workforce availability. In the case of aboriginal people, there was a commitment to

Government Operations committee  I'm going to ask Mary to give the specific numbers. I would like to have more audits than I have. Mary can tell you that we're aiming for about three or four. My issue on the audit side is not a lack of funding, because I've managed to reallocate within my organization. But when

Government Operations committee  How many minutes do I have?

Government Operations committee  I can try to answer, but these are very complex questions. In answer to your question about whether we have enough staff to deal with requests to get involved in elections, I can tell you that our system of regulations requires people to submit their application form 30 days in

Government Operations committee  Very simply, it's the department that has to create the position, so obviously people in human resources would have some knowledge, and it's the deputy minister who had to approve these.

Government Operations committee  In my opinion, it was inappropriate. In their opinion, they felt it was justified at the time.