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Government Operations committee Absolutely.
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee They were just finalized. We've set up the pools, and I can give you how many people are in the pool. We are promoting those pools for jobs within Veterans Affairs Canada. I know we have already hired three out of the pools. I hired one of them. We are setting up the HR plan t
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee What's interesting about this competition is we took veterans' and Canadian Armed Forces' experience, and we made it essential, meaning only those who had that experience could apply. You need to be careful because you don't want to exclude other people, but we were very bold in
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee I cannot pronounce on the public service. It's under the purview of the Public Service Commission.
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee I think it was—
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee I'll need to validate the number, but I believe it was about five. What I wanted to say was that the job offers were not close to where their homes were.
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee They were also, I think, surprised to be offered a job—
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee —and they wanted to go back and talk to their families.
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee This is important feedback that we've received from our clients. Some may want to move, but some really want to stay where they have been. An example is the number of veterans who have moved to Prince Edward Island because they want to come to the island and that's where their fa
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee We have the tools and we need to educate managers—
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee —and that's what we're doing.
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee So, we have—
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee In Veterans Affairs, I can speak to what we're doing within our department. Within our department, we are promoting veteran hiring. We put in place targeted pools so that managers know that there are veterans—
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee Pardon me?
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal
Government Operations committee I cannot pronounce on a policy question like that, but what I can pronounce on is what's under the purview of HR. With the legislation that we have, we are operating within that legislation and we've developed some innovative tools. We're learning as we're going along and we're p
April 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Kiran Hanspal