Government Operations committee  We have a central organization in the federal government that is responsible for the oversight of staffing. That's the Public Service Commission. Part of the problem with the time it takes to staff is that the Public Service Commission at this point tends to play an oversight rol

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Liam. Thank you, Mr. Chair and Madam Thompson. The problem is quite straightforward, really. There are lots of constraints around how contracting is done, but as you realized from your session last week with departmental heads, there are absolutely no constraints arou

Finance committee  It's exceptionally important to have it fixed. One of the things we've asked for in our submission is more financing. In the last federal budget, the government only allotted $35 million, $12 million, $8 million, and $8 million in the next four fiscal years. The Treasury Board re

Finance committee  It is up to five years to fix Phoenix, so more funding will be required. Additionally, if the government is going to be looking at a new system that goes peripherally to Phoenix—and the new system can't be in place until Phoenix is fixed—the government is going to have to hire

Finance committee  We certainly do. It wasn't directly in our submission, but certainly we agree with our colleagues in CUPE that the Infrastructure Bank ought to be funded with public money, for the same reasons my colleague Angella just enunciated. We believe public financing is cheaper than priv

Finance committee  Certainly, I think our concern would include that, but it's further than that. We believe that the public has a borrowing power that's cheaper than the private sector. We believe that it's not a question of supply; rather, it's a question of the financial resources that we ask t

Finance committee  Thank you for your invitation to appear today. Our president, Chris Aylward, sends his regrets. PSAC has several recommendations for the 2019 federal budget, which were outlined in our written submission. The Phoenix pay system is still a matter of great concern to our members

Government Operations committee  No, I don't.

Government Operations committee  I'm not an expert on pensions, Mr. Weir, so I think François could probably respond to that more, if that's okay, because he's dealt significantly with the pensions for his members.

Government Operations committee  Yes, the Union of Postal Communication Employees is a component, a sub-union, of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

Government Operations committee  I'm not quite sure I understand the question, but certainly, I think the problem you described goes to staffing levels. Whether it's at a Canada Post office or a Service Canada office, if there aren't enough people on the front counter to provide the services, you're going to hav

Government Operations committee  I think there's a methodological inconsistency in the question itself, in the notion that people, if they're getting mail five days a week, don't want mail five days a week. I think that opinion is very much qualified by the fact that a lot of those people may indeed have postal