Government Operations committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the question. It's a pleasure being here this morning. We have worked very closely and continue to work with our colleagues from ISED and DND on this project. Clearly, we will need to see the results of the defence policy review so that we can move forw

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. If you have the opportunity, I would encourage you to look at the PSPC website, which has very detailed information around the major procurements that are under way. That would include the marine, the land, and the air domains, with extensive information on where each

Government Operations committee  We don't have that information with us but we can go back and provide it to the clerk.

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure we've done the analysis. I'll have to verify that and report back to the clerk.

Government Operations committee  On fair wages, we are working with our colleagues from Employment and Social Development Canada on policy options, which will likely be moving forward over the course of the next number of months.

Government Operations committee  We will be working with ESDC, so that will be part of the work that's ongoing with them now.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. We entered into a contract with IBM in 2011 after an open and transparent process. IBM provided a bid that met all of the mandatory requirements and we entered into a contract under authorities from Treasury Board to be able to design, build, and impl

Public Accounts committee  Yes, the system definitely works. Beyond the IT component, however, we have serious problems in relation to the HR processes.

Public Accounts committee  As of October 18, the pay centre had 520,000 outstanding transactions to process.

Public Accounts committee  As Ms. Lemay mentioned, we are currently increasing our processing capacity through HR measures. Once we've finished implementing the collective agreements and gotten through this year's tax season, we expect that this increased capacity will enable us to tackle the outstanding

Public Accounts committee  As the Auditor General mentioned in his report, it's a long-term process. Some measures have already been initiated, and we are in the midst of developing more to tackle the system's most critical stress points. As we increase processing capacity and modify processes, the situat

Public Accounts committee  Once those agreements have been fully implemented, we'll move that capacity on to the queue.

Public Accounts committee  At this point, we're working to implement 20.

Public Accounts committee  On that I'd have to defer to the Treasury Board.

Public Accounts committee  Right, but I would add that the size of the bargaining units varies considerably.