Public Accounts committee  The general rule for having a professional contract is that on an audit, for example, there has been an assessed need for an expert. In the case of an actuary, for example, we have thought this through many times. Should we hire an actuary? But we have decided we don't have the s

Public Accounts committee  Out of those numbers, half are administrative efficiencies, reducing the hours that the reception is open, reducing the library services, so the 69 are not auditors. Thirty were auditors, and allow me to say that five in that third year are because we will be losing an internatio

Public Accounts committee  Basically our budget is broken down into three pieces. We spend about $72 million in salary; about $12 million in non-salary, which is generally professional contracts, IT-related purchases; and then another approximately $12 million, which is services we've received that we don'

Public Accounts committee  —and then we allocate. Based on audit hours of our products, we will allocate those costs to the big picture, which is what Mike is talking about. We divide it among our products. Is that okay?

Public Accounts committee  I can answer. I don't think there's an award for best youth employer. There might be, but we haven't applied for it. Would we win or not? I have no idea. I do believe that a lot of the satisfaction for those who are over 40 is caused by our benefits and flexibility. What we do i

Public Accounts committee  Oh, for hiring and for youth. Sorry, yes. The one difficulty we have with the strategic operational review is we have decreased our hiring of recent graduates. To be honest, that is one of the by-products of trying to adjust to a smaller budget. We hope that once we establish th

Public Accounts committee  I'll take that question. Yes, the results of our surveys have shown that we are a good place to work, that people like working with us. This is a second analysis, obviously. If you are comparing it with how we are meeting percentages of representation, it's very much a function

Public Accounts committee  Yes. We received a letter from Minister Flaherty, I guess, at the time encouraging us to do as the other departments have, but it was definitely our decision to proceed.

Public Accounts committee  We spend about $72 million of our $85 million in salaries, however that works out.

Public Accounts committee  For travel and contracting, we have 5% in travel and probably another 5% in professional services. The rest, which is 5%, is miscellaneous.

Public Accounts committee  I'll try to be general. We have three management levels. DX levels earn about $120K. I'm rounding; it's probably more like $118K. A DX earning $100K would get about 5% of that, which is about $6,000, divided by two measures, one for people and one for product. We focus on peopl

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the member for his question. There are 178 executive-level positions at present. Given the reductions, we are going to eliminate about 60 positions, as we explained earlier, and I imagine that will mean about 10 or 15 executive-level positions.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. This is a question we know of and are fully aware of. In the breakdown of our performance pay, we follow very much what the public service has done in the way of pay at risk. So if you perform as expected, you will get performance pay, which is why yo

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.