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Public Accounts committee No. I have met with the folks who've done the design. We had a half-day session with Statistics Canada last week as well—not on this specifically, but on other elements. I'm confident that our best statistical people have looked at this and come up with the best approach to devel
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee Just to give a concrete example of that, what that means on a distinction-basis approach is that our Inuit partners may say, for example, “We wish to focus our energies further upstream”, which means we need a different set of measures than just employment, because there are goin
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee I've spent a lot of time digging into this, and as an economist I understand the limitations of statistical collection at a micro level. Let me just walk you through this. What we want is comprehensive, accurate, timely and cost-effective data. At a micro community level, whethe
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee I'm going to need some help on this one, but before I go to that, I understand your frustration and I want to assure you that as public servants, we join to make a difference. We are committed to doing that. As a public servant who happens to have Perry Bellegarde as his neighbou
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee I'll focus on the monitoring question, if that's where you wanted me to start, but I'm happy to go wherever you want. In the Auditor General's report in paragraph 6.83, they lay out the statistics on how the department did on the timeliness of its financial and activity monitor
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee Do you want me to focus exclusively on the data? Okay. On the data area, there are areas for which the department had data available that it did not share back with communities when it did the analysis of the data. That should have been done and needs to be done, and it will be
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee You may wish to ask the Auditor General that. Inside the department, one of the reasons they were not collecting the longer-term data is that they doubted the calibre of that data to accurately reflect what was happening, given the inability of communities on the ground to do tha
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee First, the final result should be an increase in employment among those groups throughout the country. However, how will we determine that that increase is truly the result of the programs? Here is what we can do, and the situations where we expect it to be difficult to perform
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee It was organized with community partners, and I think that Ms. Wernick was directly involved in this project. Its purpose was to obtain more detailed data about each community, so as to better understand their diverse needs, because the communities differ. For instance, some of
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee Indeed, the new program we will put in place April 1 was developed in partnership with those communities, in order to guarantee better results and to help them reach their goals. As you know, the seventh call to action published by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Cana
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack
Public Accounts committee Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. I'd like to begin by thanking the members of the committee for inviting me here. I would like to take you through a quick update on the status of our work to implement the eight recommendations. I'd like to acknowledge that we are gathered on traditio
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Graham Flack