Government Operations committee  I'm assuming you mean in the entire public service.

Government Operations committee  Over the last five years, there has been an increase of a little over 4% per year, almost all of which was directly related to more spending in the area of security, public safety, health, and on some additional RCMP forces—generally on the protection of Canadians.

Government Operations committee  May we take note of your figures and get back to you on them?

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. Yes, we call them compensation advisers. We're very aware of the fact that a number of them are expected to retire over the next 10 years or so. We have a recruitment campaign going on right now. We've had over 5,800 applications, of which 4,000 were seen as

Government Operations committee  Absolutely we are, not only on recruitment, but also on the development and training of this very important community for the public service.

Government Operations committee  I think that you have a copy of it in front of you. It is in the blue book.

Government Operations committee  Madam Chair, I think that I can answer the question as follows. Each department must prepare a business plan and table it before Parliament once a year. I think that the plans that you are referring to are these business plans. You get them on a yearly basis. In the report he tab

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes. The departmental plans are contained in the Report on Plans and Priorities. You have those in Parliament.

Government Operations committee  If that is something that is of particular interest to you, we could explore the issue in all of the plans.

Government Operations committee  Planning is the plan. Then we ask the departments to do integrated planning. That takes time. Some are more advanced than others. I am prepared to provide you with a status report if you want. Otherwise, we can go at it a bit differently and examine specific aspects of the public

Government Operations committee  We have objectives. I will give them to you.

Government Operations committee  Yes, we do.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  That is why we want planning.