Government Operations committee  I would be happy to get back to you with the specific number. But off the top of my head, of the 79 whose jobs were affected, we had about 12 who decided to stay with the government and were able to get jobs elsewhere. When I say “jobs elsewhere”, it's meant after cuts. There wer

Government Operations committee  They are true bottom-line savings for the Privy Council Office. I spoke, in an earlier appearance, about the transfer of our funds to Shared Services Canada, which I believe was in the order of magnitude of $7 million, Marc, if I recall. That was at the April appearance last year

Government Operations committee  I'd be pleased to do so. With respect to the Beyond the Border team, I will refresh your memory: the Privy Council Office sought $1.3 million in the 2012-13 supplementary estimates (B), and we're seeking $0.9 million for this year and another $0.9 million for fiscal year 2014-15

Government Operations committee  Let me first of all define what internal services means to the Privy Council Office, and as the ADM for corporate services branch, I'm uniquely placed to do that. It includes finance, planning, HR, IT, information management...I'll just stop at information management for a bit, b

Government Operations committee  The last thing I would say, then, is that the numbers I have given you might shift a little bit, but minimally now. We're actually a little bit ahead of schedule, because folks who got the opting letters made decisions quickly. Many of them made decisions to take one of the optio

Government Operations committee  I'd be pleased to do that. Perhaps I'll start with the impact on the Privy Council Office's workforce. In my appearances before you in 2012 and 2013, I tried to keep you up to date as we were going through the WFA process. I was careful to caveat my responses with “this is ongo

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. It's an excellent question. Forecasting is a practice that we and all Government of Canada departments take seriously. Every year we have a sense of the central battle rhythm of our operations. I spoke earlier about the core work of PCO not being fund

Government Operations committee  I will begin with a bit of a bureaucratic answer, but I'm a bureaucrat, so I can say that.

Government Operations committee  We always try to do our best, but particularly within the context of the PCO's complex environment, certainty is a bit elusive at times. We do take into account the behaviour of the organization more and more, and, as you say, the past historical context, particularly when we ada

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I will begin by explaining our plan. I will then yield the floor to my expert on figures, Marc Bélisle, who will be able to tell you about our planned expenditures. The RPP is the Privy Council Office's expenditure plan. The committee is probably we

Government Operations committee  I particularly appreciate the focus on one of our five program objectives, which of course is commissions of inquiry. If you look back into the work that PCO has done over the past number of years, we have supported the establishment and operation of a number of commissions of i

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I'm accompanied by three colleagues from the Privy Council Office: Mr. lan McCowan, assistant secretary to the cabinet, communications and consultations;

Government Operations committee  In June, we issued the first wave of our opting letters to employees: 66 employees at the Privy Council Office got opting letters to tell them that the process had begun and that they had 120 days to choose among the three options in the opting letters. That process has now run i

Government Operations committee  Again, Mr. Maloney would be better placed to give you a progress report on that, but my understanding, from conversations with him and with the ADMs who support him, is that work is going very well, that it is on track, and that significant progress has been made to further both