Government Operations committee  Yes, there are definitely improvements that can be made. I'll pass the question over to Howie.

Government Operations committee  Frankly, it stems from the culture I spoke to earlier of preferring contracting out. The real challenge at the bargaining table is that you have contracting out problems at both ends. At one end, for example, our cleaners would make a bit more nominally, but when you contract i

Government Operations committee  There are really only obligations around if people are losing their jobs, essentially, if people are being displaced. As you probably heard on our new-found expertise around ATIPs and such, that's how we try to find out a lot of that information about all of the other things that

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I will do so in English, because my notes are in English. I was close to the end, but I'll just say that one of the main things is to make sure there are staffing envelopes for new programs so that they have the proper capacity to deliver the services effectively whe

Government Operations committee  I'm going to ask Ms. Girash to answer your question.

Government Operations committee  I'll make a quick comment and then turn it over to Howie West. There is a pervasive culture inside senior management toward contracting out. It's often viewed as a bit of a panacea in terms of ways of delivering public services, so that will be a challenge, even with policy dire

Government Operations committee  Of course, as a union we're very much in support of a greater role for indigenous communities and working through how services are delivered for indigenous communities. We've been very active in terms of some of the transfers that have happened in the past around education and he

Government Operations committee  I'll do my best. There's a lot to say on this important topic. I thank you very much for the opportunity to address the committee. The PSAC is the largest union in the federal public service, representing over 230,000 workers, the majority of whom are in the federal public ser