Finance committee  And advertising.

Finance committee  I just want to mention that in the years after this program came to Summerside, the tax centre employees who process the rebates forwarded suggestions to make the program better, and one of them was to market it. The marketing aspect of the program is missing. That would certainl

Finance committee  I guess one thing I would like to know is where those numbers come from, because from my perspective, when I watch my membership list, there are 700 people on there, on both lists all the time. If you come in April and you do a scope of how many employees are there, it's income t

Finance committee  Exactly, $2.3 million of that.

Finance committee  Job protection really only applies to permanent employees. In Summerside we have a very strong workforce. They've been there since the centre opened and they've shown their dedication. They can do the job. For these people, when their option is to find something in the private se

Finance committee  As I stated earlier, we foresee a loss of between 60 and 80 permanent jobs, of the 700 members who work at the tax centre. We have about 524 permanent employees who work at the tax centre, and we're staffed to capacity. For our programs that run during income tax time, we also ha

Finance committee  I'd like to thank the finance committee for inviting me to appear before you today. My name is Dawn Hardy, and I'm the Local 90006 president of the Union of Taxation Employees. The Union of Taxation Employees, a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, represents mo