Persons With Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, our government is taking unprecedented actions to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in our economy, including inclusive work opportunities. With respect to this program, we have been working for a year with this organization. We have ext

Persons With Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, as I just said, we are not letting these people go. We are looking for meaningful work for them. They are exceptionally gifted employees. We are not in the business of paying people a dollar a day. I misspoke in my previous response. I meant to say a dollar a day.

Persons With Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, perhaps I will set the record straight. It was our government that actually committed, extended the contract and paid these individuals up to minimum wage. It was the Conservative government that paid them $1.50 a day. It is only under the leadership of our governmen

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, I can assure members that we are laser-focused on delivering for our men and women in the military and in the Coast Guard. We have delivered a fully-costed defence policy and a defence investment plan that is going to allow research and development into the future.

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, I can assure all members in this House, and indeed all Canadians, that our process to procure 88 fighter jets will be open, fair, transparent and indeed competitive. Unlike the previous Conservative government, which could not even sole source a jet, we are determine

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, I am happy to put our record on defence procurement against the Conservatives' record at any time. We have fully costed the defence policy. We have launched the future fight procurement of 88 jets. We have had the delivery of our first interim jet. We have the first

Justice  Mr. Speaker, on this issue, I can assure my colleague that we have full confidence in the workers of Davie shipyard. We have awarded them many contracts, including part of a $7-billion contract for the Halifax-class frigates, and another worth $70 million for an icebreaker. We h

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for the question which in fact, unfortunately, is based on error. I can assure all Canadians that transportation is a priority under the accessible Canada act, which gives an extended mandate to the CTA to ensure that accessible transportation

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your time, as well.

Government Operations committee  Les, would you mind giving us the technical side?

Government Operations committee  Our role in this whole thing is twofold. It's to stabilize Phoenix and make sure employees are paid accurately and on time, but it's also to ensure that the data we will pass on to the next system is clean. It is way too premature to speculate what the new system will look like.

Government Operations committee  I can confidently say no.

Government Operations committee  I will definitely take that feedback under advisement. What I would say is that the severity of the offence is a factor the registrar will take into consideration, but I—

Government Operations committee  I understand the analogy you are making. That is why we're putting in “up to” 10 years; and the types of things that the registrar will be obligated to take into consideration, including the severity of the offence, will include prior offences, mitigating circumstances and....

Government Operations committee  Thanks for the question. We are at the point where every department and agency served by the pay centre will be in a pod in May. We are constantly looking for innovative ways to address any kind of systemic barriers to dealing with this more quickly. Les, can you tell us a bit