Thank you, Madam Chair.
Welcome. It's great to have someone with your expertise here this afternoon. We appreciate it.
In my riding in Toronto we're experiencing quite a baby boom. But I know if you look at the demographic numbers overall, if our population is going to grow, we're going to continue to need a growing number of skilled immigrants in Canada.
Something we have noted in looking at the federal recruitment and hiring is that while the numbers of women are up significantly, the numbers of people of colour and ethnic minorities are not. We've asked other witnesses about this, and I remember Mrs. Barrados saying they really don't know. They're looking at why the government is not making real progress in terms of better diversity of hiring.
We had a couple of witnesses who said that perhaps the problem is with the number of term or temporary hires, because there wasn't the same kind of equity criteria applied to the temporary hires, but often it was easier to get a full-time hire if you were a temporary hire.
With your expertise and experience in management and human resources, what advice would you give, or what recommendations can you offer, for the federal government to be more successful in our equity hiring?