Human Resources committee  Do you mean the recommendations in our paper?

Human Resources committee  I know the announcement took place, but I'm not familiar with the details, so I'm sorry but I can't comment on them.

Human Resources committee  Certainly. We are very committed to the notion of public-private partnerships in the delivery of infrastructure, so we would be very supportive of the announcement made by the minister yesterday to the degree to which those are a component of it. We are on the record as saying t

Human Resources committee  In writing the paper, we were very conscious of the fact that we are in an environment of deficit reduction, and so we tried to keep our recommendations to low- or relatively no-cost measures. But there is a section of the paper devoted to partnerships. In it there's a wonderful

Human Resources committee  Yes we did.

Human Resources committee  Maybe I'll hand that over to Anne, because she wrote our submission to the Red Tape Reduction Commission.

Human Resources committee  Well, it's interesting you should mention that, because we also did a submission to the first nations panel on elementary and secondary education, and we did have some recommendations around that. Of course, one of those recommendations concerns the gap that exists in the funding

Human Resources committee  The reports you've cited are consistent with what we heard both from the round tables that GE conducted and from the outreach that I did on behalf of the Canadian Chamber. It was pretty clear that the collective well-being of the country depends on our ability to think of remote

Human Resources committee  The simple answer to your question is no, they do not have to be implemented all at once. The basic premise of the paper was that there is some work to be done by the government in research, analysis, and communication around remote communities, and we realize that is a very lo

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, honourable members, for this opportunity to be with you this afternoon. My name is Susanna Cluff-Clyburne. I am the director of parliamentary affairs at the Canadian Chamber, and I wrote the paper we released in September entitled, “T

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Komarnicki. Essentially, we've recommended amendments in three areas. The first would be to explicitly permit federally regulated employers to apply mandatory retirement when there is an issue of risk to the safety of the public and/or other workers. The second ar

Human Resources committee  No, I have not spoken with any labour organizations. My presentation today was based on discussions with our federally regulated members.

Human Resources committee  I can't speak on behalf of individual companies. Since I was asked to appear last week, I have spoken with several of our members who are in the federally regulated sector, and they have said that in order to make the adjustments necessary to their benefits plans, to their busine

Human Resources committee  Again, I'm not in a position to speak on behalf of individual companies because every company is different. They are asking for some time to be able to implement any changes that may need to be made in their businesses before the legislation comes into force.

Human Resources committee  What we're referring to is if there is a case where an employee is found not to be able to perform the particular job they are to perform for safety reasons and they are eligible for a pension, then there should be no severance payable at that time. But it would only be in the ca