There are full-time employees, there are part-time employees; there are all the scenarios. As I said, the full-time employees often have problems because they have worked overtime and have not been compensated. They may have been waiting for a cheque for up to six months. There's no reason to wait six months for an overtime cheque. It may be because they were promoted and are waiting for a cheque, and so on. There are a number of scenarios. Transfers are a big problem because there's tax incidence. When people work in Quebec and go to work in Ontario, taxes and deductions are definitely not the same. We don't have the power to begin discussions to prevent certain deductions from being made or to suspend deductions that these people would like suspended. If there is an impact, it's terrible. Some of these people are on the payroll, but not necessarily all; there are some who aren't. Some are casual workers. The problem most frequently cited is lost documents.
Evidence of meeting #10 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was advisers.
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