Public Accounts committee  One of the key areas that clearly we have to have visibility on is our spend. If we use the budget that the navy is provided as an example, now that we're able to leverage the financial aspects of DRMIS, using these tools, I can now give you visibility into our spend across a num

Public Accounts committee  As part of the departmental results framework, one of the things we have to land on is these new key performance indicators. We're going right through with all the various L1s in the organization. We're starting with a key performance question, and then we're using a logic model

Public Accounts committee  If I could just add, looking forward.... The force posture and readiness is a mechanism. It's a tool by which a chief of the defence staff sets the readiness across the fleets of the Canadian Armed Forces. One of the things where we'll start to use DRMIS and these new tools is i

Public Accounts committee  With respect to our continuing performance, as we discussed previously, it's one thing having the data; it's another thing to provide it and distill it into the information to make the decisions. As a result of the tools we've introduced in the department most recently, we're ac

Public Accounts committee  The challenge, as discussed before, is that you have data, but in and of itself it's not information. You need to take that data and you need to put it into a report. From that report you can then make hypotheses. You can go and challenge them or you can make evidence-based decis

National Defence committee  We have a personnel process, whereby annually we take a look at all the occupations and then we take a look at the overall health of each occupation. From there we develop a strategic intake plan, and we take a look at how many people we're going to enrol in the Canadian Armed Fo

National Defence committee  Let me just see if I can find it, Minister.

National Defence committee  The chief has specifically directed that we will increase 1% per year in terms of diversity of the workforce. The good news is that this year we have already surpassed the target set by the chief, and we will continue to deliver on that going forward. The other thing I'd like to

National Defence committee  Exactly. We had artificially high establishments in some communities that would never have been able to attract that many people. We've said, okay, let's adjust that, so in our big population centres, in some instances we've increased our establishment by half or up to three-quar

National Defence committee  Exactly.

National Defence committee  If I could just add, Minister, there's nothing more frustrating than when you've actually attracted a young Canadian who wants to come and serve as a reservist or in the regular force, and then they get there and it takes them eight months to a year to get in. That is just frustr

National Defence committee  Some of these delays have actually been as a result of lack of capacity to move those pension cheques through the system. The chief's direction has insisted that we direct the resources in order to enable that to take place. We're directing those resources to enable that to happe