Human Resources committee  The review of socio-economic region boundaries will begin this year. As you know, it happens every five years.

Human Resources committee  It's the labour market survey, but it's not just that. It's also even our work with provinces, for example, through the LMTAs, trying to make sure that we have information that is more targeted and more precise on who benefits from the funding. Most of our programs now have cri

Human Resources committee  We're talking about more than 35,000 employees in the department, so those numbers are not a dramatic increase. As we said, there was a lot of hiring during 2021, which explained why the numbers are higher. It's taken case by case. If their cases are really risky from the natio

Human Resources committee  On the security clearance, as you mentioned, we have something like five or seven per year. That's usually the number. This is a process that is done internally, inside the public service. It could be for many reasons. It could be just because of some concern. It doesn't mean t

Human Resources committee  Do you remember that we came to committee to explain that, during COVID, we hired a lot of people? In the context of the work we did in terms of security and all of this, we revoked and actually terminated employees in the context of the pandemic.

Human Resources committee  It was announced by the Treasury Board on Friday.

Human Resources committee  We need to discuss it with each of the health and security groups for the implementation, but that should be in the coming days and weeks.

Human Resources committee  The numbers come from statistics from Statistics Canada. If you look at StatsCan, you see that the poverty level for seniors in 2015 it was 7.1%,. In 2019, it was 5.7%, and, as you said, it went down in 2020 to 3.1%, partially due to the COVID measures, for sure. We have to remem

Human Resources committee  Between 2015 and today, there have been a lot of measures put in place. The top-up on the GIS is one of them. There has been an increase in OAS pensions too, and other initiatives that contribute to making sure that seniors are not in poverty.

Human Resources committee  For us, it's quite clear. In those areas, we have gaps between the existing situations. For example, when we think about the population that is vulnerable or generally excluded from the labour market, we know there is a gap between this population and the rest of Canadians. With

Human Resources committee  We can turn to Andrew. There are actually a few items with $13.3 million. That's why it's confusing.

Human Resources committee  I don't have the answer to that. I'm sorry. We can check.

Human Resources committee  We will see what can be provided, and we will provide it.

Human Resources committee  I think the CFO can answer the question.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Minister. It's what we call the “technology debt”, in this case. It's not necessarily about developing new projects. As you know, we have OAS, CPP and EI, and they all run on really old IT systems. We have a panel replacing this with a new system. At the moment, we n