Information & Ethics committee  Yes, please. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's very clear what the minister would like us to do here. I'm getting the view, from his response to both of our reports on access to information and privacy, that he thinks more work needs to be done. His preference is not to do piecemeal

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's clear. It encapsulates the wishes of the committee. (Motion as amended agreed to) We'll do this, and if it is solely with regard to this report, the privacy.... We have completed that item with Madam Simson's motion, which has been stood and may be considered

Information & Ethics committee  All right. That's in order. We'll have to tidy up the wording, but I think the intent is clear. The members are aware that we're setting a specific date, and for greater certainty, we want a response to all of the recommendations, including the recommendations made

Veterans Affairs committee  . For example, what is meant by “permanent severe impairment”? How is it broken into “chronic and persistent”? It should be clear to the veteran, medical professionals, and VAC what is meant by each specific term. The other thing we have to note is the new Veterans Charter has converted non

National Defence committee  . But it does happen. That is the policy. It has been a policy. It is actually driven out of Treasury Board. There are very clear regulations—three years and there has to be a break every year. I won't get into the details, but it has allowed us in the end to meet that job gap that we're

Foreign Affairs committee   they actually testified at this committee, made the statement that they did a study, and 100% of companies that were asked to participate in investigations participated. They gave their consent because it makes sense. When there's a clear, transparent approach that's well resourced, there's

Veterans Affairs committee   it clear on the record today that, as far as we're concerned, the Veterans Affairs staff are doing an incredibly good job overall. I know you want to respond.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. It was just to reiterate Mac's point. I think this bill has a potential for much more reputational damage for Canadian mining companies because of the lack of clear, transparent guidelines, standards on which we could make a fair determination, and the resources

Citizenship and Immigration committee   that existed at the beginning of 2008 would take eight to 25 years to clear, potentially. The issue now is that a new backlog is being created with the new applications, and the overall backlog, as we mentioned in March, has only been reduced about 5% to 6%. We've got some recent numbers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yet they are not providing the assistance that is needed. On number five, you say it will take eight to 25 years to clear a backlog and that it has been reduced by 29%. However, I am wondering if you have taken into account the people who have dropped and the number of cases

Citizenship and Immigration committee   on that. On the question of the backlog, we used the numbers that the department itself uses to track its processing. I'd like to be clear, because this is an issue that concerns me. The backlog that we mentioned—the reduction of 29%—is the backlog that was created under the 318 job categories, before

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —and the issues we are still burdened with in terms of that. But I'm not going to do that this morning. I want to point out, though, that from an overall perspective, we have given clear direction throughout the report with respect to a vision on foreign credentials, permanent

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I appreciate that. I think that's an excellent recommendation in terms of concrete work the committee could follow through on. I know it's in the report, but to be clear, could you state the dates that the review actually encompassed?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's pretty straightforward: if you want to clear the backlog, put more resources there.

National Defence committee   a generation for that cohort to clear, but then everyone serving from that point forward would be obliged to serve to at least 25 years before they could collect a pension. For that group that was in the 20-year-of-service term, we de-penalized early attrition after 20 years of service