Mr. David Vicente (Senior Program Analyst, Program Analyst and Regulatory Policy, Pension and Benefit Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat) at the Natural Resources Committee

From the legislation we see that this transitional coverage is based on the model that has been used before, so the transitional coverage is meant to transition the existing employees, the existing members of the pension plan, to a successor plan.

There is no such transition for new hires. Therefore, we haven't previously applied transitional coverage to new hires who are brought on after a transfer date.