I have the privilege of co-chairing our newly established joint employment equity committee with ESDC. I also co-chair with the IRB and IRCC.
Some of the things we talk about, particularly when it comes to persons with disabilities.... I will say that time and again, when we get the reports, we see that there's under-representation of persons with disabilities at most levels in the federal public sector, and in our departments at least.
Part of this is about ensuring accessibility to candidates as part of the interview and application process. There's not enough being done at the early stages to ensure that accommodations are being offered to folks who are applying and asking candidates clear questions about accommodation as they're going through the application process.
This is also about where these positions are being advertised. The joint employment equity tables have been newly established in the last year, but one of the topics we will be discussing is outreach to disability organizations to try to gather information about better places where we could be advertising jobs.
A lot of folks, when they're applying.... My sister is now a student at Carleton and she's looking to get into the federal government. She's going to the jobs website. The employer is not doing enough outreach in some of those communities—