Government Operations committee  So it's making progress, definite progress. I would suggest that you may wish to invite the Public Service Commission. They can provide more insight into this data and also provide insight on the practices of other departments.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  The target was set in June 2017. At that time we had a base population of 2,272, and 5.9% of our population in the department were veterans. I just want to highlight one thing. To determine who are the veterans amongst us, the veterans have to self-identify, but it's not mandat

Government Operations committee  I think a big part of the translation is taking the military credentials or even the experience, translating it into public service language and then also explaining that to the veterans. It's a two-part conversation. On hiring, what we've done is to use Canadian Armed Forces ba

Government Operations committee  Thank you for that question. We actually have an important partnership with ESDC, the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence. We developed an important online tool called the skills translator. It basically takes a military occupational structure identifica

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  I cannot pronounce or provide an opinion on that but—

Government Operations committee  I can indicate that the Veterans Hiring Act is under the purview of the Public Service Commission and that all federal departments are subject to the requirements of the act. I'll be frank that before 2017, we had used the VHA support material to support the departments. With the

Government Operations committee  As head of human resources, I can speak to what the department, Veterans Affairs Canada, is doing. I'll tell you that within our division, we make sure we consider veteran priorities first, as per the law; that we consider mobility and preference, as per the law. We've launched t

Government Operations committee  It's under each deputy's purview to decide how they staff—

Government Operations committee  —under the auspices of the Public Service Employment Act and also the Veterans Hiring Act. Our deputy minister put out the challenge of an aspirational goal, so we're pursuing that rigorously.

Government Operations committee  It was a career summit.

Government Operations committee  We did work with the departments and we provided conditional on-the-spot offers at the Invictus Games.

Government Operations committee  I'll tell you something very interesting, and this is an experience we've also had at the career transition services. Of the 684 people who have reached out to the veterans in the public service unit, a significant proportion are having exploratory conversations. They're just try

Government Operations committee  We launched the veterans in the public service unit during the Invictus Games. It's been in place since September 2017. We used social media. We used—