Government Operations committee  Every department has an obligation to engage in human resources management planning when it establishes its business plan. Every department is able to answer those questions. As to whether we have an overall plan, I would say that we have strategic objectives, but that we don't h

Government Operations committee  Under its policy, the Human Resources Management Agency of the Public Service must support the departments so that they can effectively do good planning and recruit staff. Yes, absolutely.

Government Operations committee  These are the departments that have delegated hiring authority, but the source of that authority is the Public Service Employment Act. So it's the Public Service Commission that oversees that.

Government Operations committee  In all honesty, no. I must say, however, that the Canada Revenue Agency is a separate employer, outside the fold of the Treasury Board Secretariat's employer function.

Government Operations committee  You should contact the agency directly.

Government Operations committee  It's particularly difficult to put a price on the actual savings, as you call them, because we do an annual review of forecasts of the overall expenditures on compensation through the compensation plan for the entire public administration. So depending on what was planned or fore

Government Operations committee  It's $330 million. Sorry about that. I get confused between millions and billions in French--not in reality, though!

Government Operations committee  I couldn't speculate on what you call “rollbacks”, but one thing that's clear is that we always do planning, including for compensation decisions that are collectively bargained, and that planning goes up and down depending on the direction of the economy and the direction of the

Government Operations committee  To be more precise, the organization responsible for hiring is the Public Service Commission. Renewal planning, that is to say for the needs of the public service and the strategies for attracting and retaining personnel, is a responsibility that falls in large part to the Human

Government Operations committee  Are you talking again, sir, about the RCMP members?

Government Operations committee  For that particular complaint, no. But as I said, we have a few smaller complaints on the books that deserve our attention, but they are not as far-reaching, in terms of implication, as that particular one.

Government Operations committee  Members under the RCMP Act are not covered by collective agreements. They're not employees of the--

Government Operations committee  I wouldn't be in a position to tell you.

Government Operations committee  With respect to the pay equity litigation, we have about six complaints in the books. One of them, fairly significant, was the object of tentative settlement as part of the bargaining process, but we're still waiting for confirmation from the Human Rights Commission that there is

Government Operations committee  If you're referring to the executive policy, it refers to a senior cadre that are members of the public service, so that would not cover RCMP members.