Government Operations committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, to ensure that I am understanding what the committee wants, we will proceed with the fifth and sixth meetings as outlined on the work plan of April 28. The fifth meeting will be Minister Qualtrough, Minister Lebouthillier, and officials from the Canada Revenu

Government Operations committee  The meetings for next Friday were already decided on; I'm talking about the week after that. The fifth meeting here would be for May 11; the sixth meeting that I'm detailing would be for May 15. There are two ministers invited for May 11, according to the work plan, and at the si

Government Operations committee  Yes, PHAC.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, the interpretation's had to stop. We can't hear Ms. McDonald. I'm sorry.

Government Operations committee  I believe you are muted, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  Yes, I do recommend you suspend briefly. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  Just to be entirely sure, as I must contact witnesses for Monday, for Monday we're going to be contacting the witnesses for meeting number four. For Friday, we're going to be contacting the witnesses for, I understood, meeting five, but at one point it was meeting eight. I just

Government Operations committee  I have the list here. They include the chief of human resources at Treasury Board, and the board's associate assistant deputy minister, employment conditions and labour relations; Patrick Borbey, president of the Public Service Commission; and the president of the Public Service

Government Operations committee  They're all federal employees, essentially. There are several others as well.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to take a moment to clarify and to make sure I've understood what the committee wants to do for next week. My understanding is that they want to have the witnesses who are identified in the work plan for meeting four next Monday, and then th

Government Operations committee  Yes. We did send out the speaking notes before today's meeting. In some cases, when we get bilingual notes, we can send them out. However, we don't always receive them in both official languages, unfortunately. If we do, definitely we can send them out. There's no obligation fo

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I hate to be unnecessarily bureaucratic or procedural. Unfortunately the order we are currently working under requires that all decisions be taken by a recorded division. That is the order adopted by the House. If the committee will permit, may I put to them the ques

Government Operations committee  I believe Mr. Drouin outranks me, so you should go to him first.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I would just like some instruction from the committee regarding who we want to invite for Wednesday and Friday next week. According to the current work plan, we are to have representatives of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada as well as the Office of

Government Operations committee  I would suggest Raphaëlle take the lead on this.