Government Operations committee  That falls more into the world of my colleague Carl.

Government Operations committee  I addressed this with the senator—

Government Operations committee  These are not recent issues, and we've addressed those issues. I'm prepared to share the material that I shared with the senator, because that was actually hearsay. So—

Government Operations committee  Please, let me get to it, because I was going to say that we have, on a monthly basis, about the same number of new vets who are being added to the priority system as we're able to place. We're doing a good job of placing. We're placing on average 20 to 30 per month, but we're also getting new people joining.

Government Operations committee  There are issues of a mismatch between the way they sometimes describe their experience and the skills they've acquired in the military. There's not a direct link to the NOC, to what we call the occupational codes, so that's something to help bridge in order to help veterans describe what skills they bring and match them with what we need in the public service.

Government Operations committee  No. We have the mandate to communicate directly with them. We now have two veterans on staff. Primarily, one of them makes all those calls, because sometimes the calls are a little bit difficult. This is a veteran calling a fellow veteran to try to see how we can accelerate their integration into the public service.

Government Operations committee  Yes, there's a process with National Defence. We're working closely with National Defence and Veterans Affairs in terms of preparing people for moving at the right time to kick in that entitlement, because that entitlement has a time limit.

Government Operations committee  It's five years, but again, if for the first two years of that entitlement that person is not even able to contemplate work, then we also advise them to be careful and—

Government Operations committee  That's the legislative provision that we're managing.

Government Operations committee  We have not run into issues related to the five years at this point, because it's relatively new. I don't have any indication that it's a problem.

Government Operations committee  Michael, do you want to answer that?

Government Operations committee  That's a great question. If the manager receives, after the competition poster closes—let's say it was open for three weeks—a report from the HR professional that says, “Good news—you had 350 people apply for your poster”, well, bad news—you had 350 people apply. There's a screening process that has to kick in.

Government Operations committee  You're absolutely right. We owe it to Canadians. All applicants have to be treated fairly, with respect and transparency. That's probably one of the reasons we end up with a lot of delays, because there is this concern about making sure we don't make any mistakes along the way and that everybody has been properly assessed.

Government Operations committee  I think if you're looking for a nuclear safety expert, having the best person for the job trumps having that person within 90 days or 120 days. We have to keep that in mind as well.

Government Operations committee  We've taken the modest approach, because of what I described earlier about this being a diffused responsibility, that we will immediately try to find a 10% improvement. That's our first objective. It's a starting point. We've already shaved a couple of days off in the priority system, the process that we used to use for....