Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, the ongoing problems with the Phoenix pay system remain my number one priority. It is absolutely unacceptable that our public servants are not being paid, but progress is being made. Since January 2018, pay pod departments have seen a 21% decrease in the number of

Canada Post  Mr. Speaker, our government presented a new vision for Canada Post that puts service front and centre and honours our election promise. Our vision includes reinvesting profits in service and innovation at Canada Post. We are also encouraging Canada Post to expand its partnerships

Canada Post  Mr. Speaker, our new vision for Canada Post absolutely took into account the recommendations of both the House of Commons committee and the task force on Canada Post, both of which made comments with respect to postal banking. We have encouraged Canada Post to look at innovation

Human Resources committee  I don't believe they did that math. I apologize, but as was said, we can definitely get that to you.

Human Resources committee  Are you saying, for example, that if we adopt the Ontario accessible customer service standard, we can figure out exactly how much that will cost?

Human Resources committee  I would suggest that I would recommend ones that are easy to adopt. I wouldn't preclude picking those. I don't think I could tell you how much it will cost to update websites to a certain standard, but I can tell you the standard of an accessible website, the globally recognized

Human Resources committee  Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Yes. It's a very exciting win, I would say, for the disability community. Certainly the international community has been calling for some time for Canada to establish a monitoring body for the UNCRPD. This law does that. This law sets the Canadian Human Rights Commission as the m

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure I made the second comment, but I can certainly say that it's a work-in-progress with regard to our full and complete implementation of the UNCRPD. We have a way to go in Canada. Quite frankly, this will go a way towards that, but it is a very high standard to be fu

Human Resources committee  I think that's a fundamental misstep that legislators can make, and I don't think that's been done in this case. Two examples immediately come to mind, but there may be others. First of all, there's the idea that on the board of CASDO, more than 50% of individuals have lived expe

Human Resources committee  I think I said the system was very clunky.

Human Resources committee  Well, we absolutely know the cost of not doing anything, and I would suggest that you wouldn't be suggesting that there's a cost that's too high to be inclusive. What we know is that through the regulatory process, as a matter of course, everything will be costed out. I'm sorry,

Human Resources committee  So every time one of these standards goes through the regulatory process, which, I'll remind you, is very public and is a chance for people to provide input on the standards, there will be a clear understanding of the costs of the implementation of that standard.

Human Resources committee  Like your colleague—he and I have had great conversations about this—I absolutely believe that there are programs, particularly across the provinces and territories, that create disincentive to employment, because after a certain threshold, every dollar you make will be clawed ba

Human Resources committee  That was work done by The Conference Board of Canada. Maybe James can give more details about it, at some point.