Government Operations committee  When we look at the participation of women, do you mean at the hiring level? We at the commission look at every employment equity group across the hiring. Women are doing well, but we realize we may need to pay a little bit more attention to it. What we monitor is not only whethe

Government Operations committee  I will attach numbers. I will provide them to the committee, because I do not have them in hand. I'll just double-check while we're talking.

Government Operations committee  For the indigenous people, I do have the numbers if you want them.

Government Operations committee  At this point, the appointment of indigenous peoples is actually higher than their workforce availability numbers, which is a positive signal. Could we be doing better? We could, because they still have decreased a little bit as opposed to where we were in 2013-14, but they're s

Government Operations committee  The Treasury Board will require every department to report on their numbers. We're always comparing them against the workforce availability.

Government Operations committee  Student hires have increased quite a bit. We've actually increased them by 7.3% since the numbers of 2013-14. It is indicating that an increase is happening in student hiring, which is basically giving us that pool toward permanent hires. When we talk about temporary hires, tem

Government Operations committee  The issue of the decrease in below 35 is being addressed through a lot of the discussions on recruitment across government. Part of that was brought forward by the commission raising a bit of a red flag to the concerns we had. The commission was the holder of the statistics to in

Government Operations committee  In our case, as well, technology is key to the fulfilment of our mandate. To be effective, we are conducting more and more tests and audits online. That online access gives all Canadians better access to audits by the public service. Shared Services Canada has worked with us. We

Government Operations committee  I would not say that we have encountered difficulties or access problems with departments. In fact, the majority of departments use our systems at testing time. Everything is done over the Internet, which facilitates the transition to a common testing system. We do not have any p

Government Operations committee  We have a shared server since one of our objectives is to modernize and protect our servers. The server we use has been moved to Borden. Before the move, our server was used by Privy Council, the PMO and us.

Government Operations committee  We have basically allowed a lot more flexibility in the policies that we have. We had a very strong rule-based policy, which was actually not in alignment with the legislation. Part of the modernization is going back to what the principles of the act are. The principles of the ac

Government Operations committee  That is not within the scope of the mandate of the public service. I know that deputies definitely have that at hand. As a deputy in my organization.... We do ensure that we have corporate memory repositories or overlap in a position to ensure we have knowledge transfer. That is

Government Operations committee  That's right. I think it is known across the system as best practices for deputies to do so. We also ensure knowledge transfer through our records.

Government Operations committee  That is the number one priority because that is the number one reason for the existence of the commission. It has nothing to do with the existing cases that are before the courts or the activities. It is just that, fundamentally, when we have a public service that is meant to be

Government Operations committee  I think our priorities are not necessarily in order of magnitude. They are equally important. It is just different as it relates to our mandate. We have four priorities. One is just as important as another.