Public Accounts committee  Looking at some of the initiatives, some of the values we're promoting through our various policies, we don't believe that the financial management today is necessarily as efficient as it could be. If you look at what our policies promote, you'll see we promote improvement of bus

Public Accounts committee  We have a number of programs that support individuals. Part of it is the individual's choice and initiative, how one might want to manage one's career and aspirations. We try to be supportive of development, regardless of where an individual might want to go with his career. We g

Public Accounts committee  I can give only a general answer to that. To the best of my knowledge, there's always been an understanding that in a profession such as finance most of the professional associations have expectations of continuing professional development. So we've long understood that if we wan

Public Accounts committee  Just to reiterate, Mr. Chair, I don't think I could answer that question today. I think it would require some analysis to obtain an answer with respect to the costs.

Public Accounts committee  Again, I think the process has to be completed. I think it's not my role to really say at this time what I think the outcome would be. Our concern is always systemically that we have sufficient capacity. It's partly people; it's systems; it's business processes. There are many as

Public Accounts committee  The phenomenon that you just described is something we see in the federal government as well. There is a lot of movement. A lot of people think that what with the baby-boomers retiring there will be an increased risk of turnover. What we're trying to do for the leaders is get an

Public Accounts committee  In each case the question really needs to be posed to the departments. As I said, the choice was theirs in terms of looking at their understanding of their risks and their capacities and setting a realistic timeline for them, and I don't know enough about the details of the consi

Public Accounts committee  We have indicated we're going to do an evaluation in 2012-2013, and we'll make some decisions at that point in time.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, I would like to ask my colleague Ms. Labbé to speak on this.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I trust the member is aware that there is a process in place to consider departmental proposals. That process continues, and the final decisions on what measures will be taken will not be announced, I believe, until the budget. I think it's premature to pose the questi

Public Accounts committee  I think the process I go through in my own office each year is that we have a number of goals—implementing different initiatives and implementing some of the things we've talked about, the future-oriented financial statements, etc. These are projects in a way. They may last a whi

Public Accounts committee  We felt that the persons best able to judge the reasonableness of the timelines would be the accounting officers themselves, the deputy ministers. I would also point out that these deputy ministers for the large departments are obtaining advice from their departmental audit commi

Public Accounts committee  To clarify our expectations, we need to start with a little bit of context. This might be particularly true in smaller departments. Under the same assistant deputy minister, for example, there might be finance combined with IT. In another department, an ADM might be dedicated onl

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask my colleague Mr. Guéranger to comment, but I believe we have pretty much 100% compliance--do we not?