Can you tell me how many people will work for the new Public Health Agency of Canada? We were told that 1,202 public servants had been transferred to the Agency from Health Canada. Currently the Agency has 1,825 employees. There's quite a difference between these two figures. Where did the additional employees come from? How many more people do you plan on hiring? You've lived up quite well to the expectations noted in some of the consultation papers. Mr. Naylor has established a few guidelines for the new agency. On reading these recommendations, we get the sense that the Public Health Agency of Canada will grow too big in a few years' time. Plans call for the Agency's budget to increase and for substantial growth on the human resources side as well.
On May 16th, 2006. See this statement in context.