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Government Operations committee There was an announcement in budget 2009 whereby the government was concerned about the ability of young people to get work during the summer, so they put in a program to supplement the money the departments were already providing or putting forward to hire students. The Privy Co
November 19th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Vice-Chair. We are delighted to be meeting the members of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. As you said, Simon Kennedy is here with me. My opening statement pertains to the 2009-2010 Supplementary or B Estimate
November 19th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee I'm not an expert, but I would suggest that one of the key things is the need to brand the public service as a great place to work, because in fact it is. And it's probably one of the best kept secrets in Canada. I also think that the work.... In advertising or in trying to attra
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee Again, it's not my area of expertise, but my understanding is that the role of that committee is to actually give advice to the government on how all of that can be done, how to actually attract people into the public service, and what types of people they should be looking to at
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee Thank you.
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee Personally, I'm not aware of any of those conversations in my role. I'm not sure....
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee Nothing specifically that I'm aware of.
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee Yes, it absolutely is a priority. I think it is the priority not only for the public service but for many private industries as well, because of the demographics of our country. We have an aging baby boomer population, and inside of the public service we are going to be losing a
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee I've never heard of that practice in our office. People take their job very seriously because it is in accordance with the law. But they do apply the sections of the law equally as diligently, so if they apply a blackout on a particular section, then they actually have documented
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee We don't have any contingencies. If we find we don't have sufficient funds, for example, for the coordinator, then we would come back in with supplementary estimates.
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee Not that I'm aware of. I think most of our consultations are still with the line departments, not with the new players that have come under the ATIP.
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
Government Operations committee At this point, I think we have allocated sufficient individuals to handle the workload we have at this point. One of the things that affected our rating in this last report—we actually got three stars out of five, which was significantly better than the F we received the year bef
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Marilyn MacPherson