National Defence committee  That is correct.

National Defence committee  I cannot speak to the allegations that have given rise to the investigation, as we cannot get in the way of that investigative process, so there is nothing I can say in that respect.

National Defence committee  I would say that you are correct. The orders in council are done on an annual basis in respect of setting terms and conditions for GIC appointees, and changes in their rates of pay are also reflected in those orders in council. There is the performance management program that is

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, there is a process. Applicants are advised when an appointment is made and that process is over. They would be aware at that point that they were not being considered for that particular position. We do try to close the loop on that. If a process takes a certain amoun

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I can start. Yes, the Auditor General did look at some of the training and orientation we do. There is certain information that is provided through the fact that the appointees are now public office holders, and if they are in what we would refer to as leadership posi

Public Accounts committee  Other departments—

Public Accounts committee  It is the minister who makes the recommendations to the GIC—

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. Because a judge is required, there is a separate and distinct process that happens with the Department of Justice, with the judiciary and the chief justices in the provinces of those superior courts. I cannot speak to what those activities were during the audit perio

Public Accounts committee  They are not within my responsibility. That is the management of judges. What we do is exactly as you have pointed out. The department will be cognizant of what the tribunal is looking for in terms of the demands. The Department of Justice would be working with the judiciary in

Public Accounts committee  I think that my point in putting forward the government's approach to the reappointments on a transitional basis...and many of them are reappointments of incumbents, that is, people who are in the position and they are extending their term. I'm not in a position to say that it is

Public Accounts committee  I can give a brief perspective in terms of how we are working with departments to that end. We certainly do track and monitor vacancies across the Governor in Council population, and share information with departments in terms of their minister's portfolio and upcoming vacancies.

Public Accounts committee  There are two things on the profile. You first have to register and create your user profile. In that process, people will get confirmation that they are registered on the website. Once they have their registration and they apply for specific positions, they will upload their doc

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. I don't think so. We are certainly sensitive to some of those issues. I'm not the expert on all the technicalities, but we have tried to make the system work with a minimum amount of space required, in terms of loading particular documents. We do have some experience

Public Accounts committee  We are working on that. We don't have a broadly based approach for that, but certainly in terms of individual notices of opportunities where we are working, we may have a specific recruitment strategy or advertising strategy that would involve social media. So yes, those are thin

Public Accounts committee  That's a very good question. One of the ways we can look at that is certainly the data we are collecting on applicants in terms of who is applying and how they are. It's very early days in the process, in terms of the use of the website and the online applications. The government