National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, would you allow my colleague to continue her explanations?

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, can I let Ms. Sherman answer?

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question. I was appointed to a dual role: that of deputy clerk and that of deputy minister of intergovernmental affairs. My mandate is to mainly work on federal-provincial-territorial issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation is u

National Defence committee  I support the Clerk of the Privy Council in his role of Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister. He is the one who decides on which files I will work and on which files to brief me.

National Defence committee  As this is not a file I was briefed on, I cannot answer.

National Defence committee  I will turn to my colleague Ms. Sherman for an answer to this specific or technical question.

National Defence committee  Maybe I could start and you could complete it. I think it's a very good point. We spoke about barriers. We spoke about having to change the culture. We have to improve the process. We have to increase accountability. Recently, in order to strengthen policies that protect federa

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, do you want me to answer?

National Defence committee  In the case of the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, it was reported that the organization's employees felt they had no other recourse. So they turned to the media. The media reports were consistent with the information obtained through a survey of federal public s

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, could my colleague Ms. Sherman answer this question?

National Defence committee  At that time, I was deputy minister at the Government of Quebec's ministry for sustainable development, the environment, and the fight against climate change. I was not a member of the federal public service. I was appointed to the federal government only in August 2016 as deputy

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge that the land from which I am joining you virtually today is the traditional unceded territory of the Huron-Wenda