A number of committees fall under the umbrella of what's called a coordinating committee of deputy ministers. That's the overall committee chaired by the Clerk of the Privy Council, and then you have a series of committees that each have a specific function. I can talk a bit about that if you want and I'll try to do it as quickly as possible.
The Committee of Senior Officials, COSO, acts as the human resource committee for the senior executive cadre of the public service. Again, it's chaired by the Clerk of the Privy Council, and so a number of deputy ministers.... This is to focus on the deputy minister, associate deputy minister, and assistant deputy minister level of government.
The Treasury Board portfolio advisory committee brings together the members of the portfolio, so there's the agency we talked about earlier, PSHRMAC, the Treasury Board Secretariat itself, the school of the public service, and a number of deputies who advise on how they can contribute to the public service. For example, new learning strategies associated with the implementation of the Federal Accountability Act would be developed and advised on at that level.
A special committee has been created by the clerk and is chaired by Margaret Bloodworth, the associate clerk, and that's called the public service renewal committee. It will be focusing its attention on that challenge we talked about before, which is, how do we proceed with renewal? What are the specific strategies, programs, activities we can focus on there?
There's the Human Resource Management Advisory Committee, which focuses on all the human resource policies. For example, the new act, the Public Service Modernization Act, would have been their responsibility.
En suite, you then have three committees focused on specific policy areas: economic, prosperity, environment, and energy is one; social inclusion and justice; and global affairs, security and human rights. They focus on more of the bread-and-butter policy and program in advising the government.