Public Accounts committee  We have worked closely with Treasury Board over the last six months following that meeting to ensure that we were clear on their role and our role. We are now just finalizing our mandate—smoothly, I expect—and will negotiate within the next 30 days, ideally, with our unions for a

Public Accounts committee  We give priority.

Public Accounts committee  Most of our hiring is external. We try to do outreach and get the students, and at the student level we have some luck in getting visible minorities. Because at the experience level we are looking for a secret clearance, it does require a number of years of residence, and then we

Public Accounts committee  The recruitment and retention is focusing on the environment. So you've got the retention. We're dealing with a large number of younger audit professionals who are very attractive to government. We are fighting against the same benefits that exist outside of government. We've f

Public Accounts committee  Flexibility is what we really sell. And I'm not going to say easier work. We have challenging work. We make a difference. In Ottawa especially, we are very visible, so we have students who are interested in us. We are on campuses across Canada, so we do sell. We sell our boss. An

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we have an ongoing student program, as I explained. That's an annual student plan that we'll hire twenty students, pretty much no matter what, every year, and we make sure there's work for them. That's one plan. The other thing is, we have ongoing advertisements on our webs

Public Accounts committee  Yes, as for the process itself, we have performance pay based on a rating that each individual is given on people management and product management. Our 200 management-level staff are evaluated by our executive committee. Each one is assigned two ratings, and each of those rating

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the member for his question. There are 178 executive-level positions at present. Given the reductions, we are going to eliminate about 60 positions, as we explained earlier, and I imagine that will mean about 10 or 15 executive-level positions.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. This is a question we know of and are fully aware of. In the breakdown of our performance pay, we follow very much what the public service has done in the way of pay at risk. So if you perform as expected, you will get performance pay, which is why yo

Public Accounts committee  I'll try to be general. We have three management levels. DX levels earn about $120K. I'm rounding; it's probably more like $118K. A DX earning $100K would get about 5% of that, which is about $6,000, divided by two measures, one for people and one for product. We focus on peopl

Public Accounts committee  We spend about $72 million of our $85 million in salaries, however that works out.

Public Accounts committee  For travel and contracting, we have 5% in travel and probably another 5% in professional services. The rest, which is 5%, is miscellaneous.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. We received a letter from Minister Flaherty, I guess, at the time encouraging us to do as the other departments have, but it was definitely our decision to proceed.