There are two different things. There are companies that do research in order to find people for positions, “headhunters”, if you will. This task does not affect that. Rather than going to firms who look for people to fill positions, we list all the positions on the website.
Our task here affects the agencies that provide the government with temporary workers, based on a contract. It is reasonable to go to certain people for short-term employment, for a truly temporary position. But the problem that we raised—it also came up in the questions from the committee—is to find out whether the people from these agencies are considered as public servants in indeterminate positions. Do they have the same responsibilities in the government as full-time public servants. As Mr. Ste-Marie said, is this a way to get into the public service?
We have been told that some people from agencies of this kind work in a temporary position for a certain amount of time and then enter the public service.