Colleagues, seeing as we have committed to do a study on public service hiring, I'd like to add this in. Basically, it's to add two full days to review the hiring of veterans. It's been in the news recently. There was a rather uncomplimentary article by Murray Brewster the other day. The headline reads, “Critics blast Ottawa's post-military jobs program for sidelining medical discharges”.
A National Post headline refers to concerns that federal jobs for injured military personnel are going to senior staff and not the military themselves. A Globe and Mail headline refers to disabled veterans waiting on a priority list for public service jobs. Also, the Globe and Mail refers to disabled veterans are finding doors shut to jobs in the federal civil service.