Government Operations committee  Mr. Drouin, thank you for your comments and your question. As the minister mentioned, several specific and extraordinary measures have been put in place for as long as it takes to manage the crisis. In the situation you just described, we have made sure that people's income wou

Government Operations committee  This is an extremely important issue. The crisis is no reason to stop ensuring that both official languages are respected at work. At the Treasury Board Secretariat, we made sure to remind the official languages champions in all departments of the importance of being able to comm

Government Operations committee  We have very little aggregate information at this point. Departments are collecting it and we are working at aggregating it. We should have data towards the end of the month, but the vast majority of people are—

Government Operations committee  Pardon me?

Government Operations committee  Absolutely.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Minister. We don't have an indication that the composition per se would have changed. There is some lag for us to get the numbers, but what I can tell you is that with regard to the term, indeterminate and casual employees, we have made sure that people were as produ

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Minister. I thank the member for his question. The last round of collective agreements took us until the summer of 2018, for the vast majority of collective agreements, and we have been at the table ever since bargaining agents signalled their intent to launch the pr

Government Operations committee  Yes. I don't have the precise numbers. I'm not sure if Glenn Purves is on the call with us, given the technical difficulties, but if not, we can send that information after the call. However, I can say—

Government Operations committee  Mr. Bilodeau, could you give us an idea of remote network connections?

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I apologize to the chair, the committee and the minister for the technical difficulties this morning. We have been able, through collaboration with Shared Services Canada my colleague Francis Bilodeau, who is at this meeting, and with others, to maximize productivity

Government Operations committee  Minister, would you like me to respond to that?

Government Operations committee  Thank you, and thank you for the question. It has been said that mental health is actually the second silent pandemic behind COVID-19. We have been extremely attentive from the get-go. The Treasury Board Secretariat has developed a tool kit that addresses several aspects of men