Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the questions. I think there is a very good rationale for the President of the Treasury Board to chair this committee. In the end, it is the government that will nominate an individual, so the government has to be comfortable with putting forward that pe

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman, the honourable member is quite right, in that the Public Appointments Commission legislation exists—

Government Operations committee  The office exists, but it has not been established by the government to this point.

Government Operations committee  There is one executive and one administrative staff.

Government Operations committee  They don't have a mandate at this point to oversee appointments of Governor in Council appointees. So no, this appointment was not vetted at the time.

Government Operations committee  I believe it will.

Government Operations committee  No, Mr. Chairman. Once the government has identified a nominee, that person's name and curriculum vitae are sent to the leaders of the opposition parties by the government for consultation. So there is an opportunity at that time, if there are issues to raise. There's also a sec

Government Operations committee  Yes. I take the point that psychometric assessments have been used for several years. We're relatively new to them as a tool, and I must say we're finding that they're very useful. The way they are done is that a trained psychologist will interview the individual candidates—in

Government Operations committee  Well, it's not a process we know very well, because it has not been used. In the statute, essentially a person who is an agent of Parliament.... The Public Sector Integrity Commissioner could only be removed for cause after address of both houses of Parliament.

Government Operations committee  I don't know Mr. Keyserlingk.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman, I have a couple of points to make in response to that question. The first one is that under the statute an interim commissioner is only appointed for six months. It's meant as a transitional measure while we do a thorough and rigorous search for the next Public Se

Government Operations committee  Well, it has started to the extent that we're looking at the selection criteria, we have a chair of our selection committee, and we're in the process of confirming the other members of the selection committee. That would be our first step. The next step would be to have a meetin

Government Operations committee  I can be very brief, Mr. Chairman. I'll just say that in the criteria, I think we would want to include “experience in either private or public”. I don't think we want to dismiss the idea that a person with a public sector background could be a fantastic candidate for this posit

Government Operations committee  It was created in 2006.

Government Operations committee  The policies we follow in the recruitment and selection of Governor in Council appointees are policies set out in the document “Managing the Governor in Council Appointments Process”. That set of guidelines was approved by the government.