Government Operations committee  What we mean is our pay scale only has two increments. You start at one salary, and then you go up. You have two years. After two years I would be making as much as the person who has ten years' experience. The two cannot be compared.

Government Operations committee  I would like to address one point that you made. That is, can the tasks be divided? The problem with dividing the tasks into pay or just pension or just insurance is that they are all interrelated, and it would create an area for error.

Government Operations committee  I will just give you an example. I really don't think I could answer that question as yes, we could do something. The government tried with UCS, the universal classification system. I was a member of that committee and I was chairing one table, classifying jobs. We went through t

Government Operations committee  It was thrown out because it was going to be too costly. The universal classification system, which was supposed to take over our present job classification system, was thrown out because they felt it did not meet the needs of the government—Treasury Board. Can I also say someth

Government Operations committee  I'd like to answer this question, if I may. Actually, I'd like to give a little bit of history. Going back, I think, to 1997, there were cuts in the public service. In particular, Treasury Board cut Public Works and Government Services Canada. As a result, a lot of the duties we

Government Operations committee  We have no objection to it being Mr. Gordon.