Procedure and House Affairs committee  The reason the interpreters are experiencing the problems is that because of the nature of their work, they have to sit in a booth, they have to listen to you speak and they also have to speak, so they are speaking at the exact same time that you're speaking, and then there is th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will have to rely on some of the information that the Translation Bureau would provide because some of our members don't submit incident reports directly to us, the union, they submit them to their employer. We don't necessarily get all those statistics from the employer. It wo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We get some. It's a very tight-knit community, and they do speak to one another, but my background is in statistics, and I like the pure numbers. I don't have the 100% pure numbers to stand behind. From our end, it's more anecdotal. The bureau itself would have the real numbers.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Clarity of speech.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You'd have to talk to the interpreters in the booth.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would say that's correct. It's the quality of the sound from the microphone. Not everybody has a microphone like the one you showed. This is an easy solution that a lot of people can have, and it's easy to standardize, but a proper microphone like the one you demonstrated would

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think Madam Gagnon would also have some very important things to say about that. For us, the major problem is the cumulative impact of the injury. Continued minor injuries can build up over time, and that's a major concern of ours that will come into play with this, so it's har

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What I'm saying is that more than half of the cases in the last year and four months or five months have have happened in the last three weeks.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, for sure. I have a very good relationship with Lucie Séguin, who is the president of the Translation Bureau, so she and I can talk about this to get some better numbers to you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a very good question about when it is done. I think, given the time allotted today, we could probably put pen to paper and table something to you about when we feel which of the two would be appropriate, in order to save time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One of the worst problems we could face right now is not fixing the problems we've outlined, which both AIIC and CAPE have outlined, and that more interpreters would have to go on long-term sick leave because they can no longer perform their duties.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They are available for download for a cost online. If the chair would like to contact us to let you know what the appropriate ISO numbers are so you can download them, we'd be more than happy to help.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I may, I would simply add that it's difficult.... You have to consider the witnesses when you're doing that because not every witness would necessarily have an appropriate headset like this one. When you're making the rules and you're considering that point, please consider th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe we do have the ability, but we will have to wait and see what the workload actually entails. I know the interpreters are dwindling, and if you increase it, there are going to be problems. I think it's a question you might want to ask the Translation Bureau when they sh

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's really hard. We can table it, for sure, and we can follow up with more precise numbers—the problem being to get an accurate count. Many injured interpreters might go home and may have experienced tinnitus but have not submitted a report. They might not go to see a doctor and