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Human Resources committee Certainly as I stated in my statement in July 2016, we reached an agreement with, at the time, Minister Brison, who is the President of Treasury Board, to restore our rights pre-Bill C-4. That certainly indicated to us a positive move for sure, and that's why we certainly welcome
April 25th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Human Resources committee Do you want to respond, Krista?
April 25th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Human Resources committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the committee members for providing the Public Service Alliance of Canada this opportunity to meet with you on Bill C-62. The Public Service Alliance of Canada represents over 130,000 federal public sector workers. We welcome this bill that f
April 25th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Government Operations committee That is doable today, though, and you can't refute that. When regulators and administrators today have the right to delete unnecessary regulations, why isn't that done? That's the question that should be asked. Don't simply say that for every regulation we're going to create, you
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Government Operations committee No. I mean, you've certainly seen the cuts in resources. That's where we have certainly seen the cuts, especially in the last two years. The government cut food inspectors, and we've seen the result of that. Canadians have seen the results of that. The world has seen the results
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Government Operations committee There is, but you need the resources to do that. If you don't have the capacity to do that, then everything gets eroded. That's when we've seen, as you referred to, the many scandals. I can't understand how you can say that there's no compromise between business competitiveness a
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Government Operations committee That's what we'd like to see. As I said in my submission, that exists today. There is no need for this bill when the regulators have the right, and government has the right now to deem any regulations inadequate or unnecessary and simply delete them. That's what we believe. The p
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Government Operations committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee for allowing representatives of the Public Service Alliance of Canada to appear before you this morning. My name is Chris Aylward. I'm the national executive vice-president for PSAC. PSAC represents public service workers who p
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Human Resources committee I'll share my time with Mr. Kingston.
November 21st, 2013Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
November 21st, 2013Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Human Resources committee Absolutely.
November 21st, 2013Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Human Resources committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to appear here today. My name is Chris Aylward, and I am the national executive vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Bill C-4 would change health and safety protections t
November 21st, 2013Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Finance committee The only real recourse we would have, of course, would be through the bargaining process. Depending on what the dispute settlement route may be, that would certainly be one. Even in the current process where Treasury Board is involved, and I'm going to speak to a specific group,
May 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Finance committee But I did say “for days”.
May 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Chris Aylward
Finance committee That's exactly what we refer to when we talk about the unilateral interference by cabinet, yes.
May 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Chris Aylward