Human Resources committee  One of the difficulties we are really struggling with in my riding of Sarnia—Lambton is timely approval. There are multiple subdivisions and various builds that are being delayed. Usually it's a lack of coordination, in my mind, between the conservation authority and the municipa

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you to our witnesses. I'm going to start with Mr. Thorne from the City of Hamilton. I've been to Hamilton quite often. Especially in the downtown area, there seems to be not a lot of vacant space and lots of issues with homelessness, which of course

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Through the chair to the minister, there were 2,700 government employees on leave without pay due to their vaccination status. Of course, we know now that members from all parties are out gallivanting among the unvaxxed, so I wonder if any of those 2,700 might be able

Human Resources committee  It's unfortunate that we can't bring them back, considering there are no mandates anywhere else and other countries have all dropped theirs. We certainly need the folks who are trained to do the work. I could share similar stories to the ones that Mrs. Kusie indicated, of peopl

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Minister, for being with us today. Before the 600 employees were hired, about how many employees did you have processing passports here in Canada?

Human Resources committee  It was about 1,500, so really, you're adding almost another third of your contingent, but the increase in passports.... You said that you're expecting 4.2 million this year. That's a 250% increase from the number you processed in 2021. Even if you've increased employees 30%, and

Human Resources committee  Yes, if the committee agrees.

Human Resources committee  Based on hearing from witnesses about some of the backlog, we recommend that the government ensure adequate resources for these additional changes.

Human Resources committee  In terms of other things we heard from the witnesses, we did hear a bit about some of the service-level issues. We may want to make a recommendation that the government ensure that there are adequate resources to provide service on these additional changes or something like that.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair. Certainly I do support the removal of 32, but I want to be clear, because if we say we want to split it, normally what that means is that the Speaker of the House will split the bill and you will vote Bill C-19 separately from division 32. I don't know if that

Human Resources committee  You talk about preferring a tripartite approach, so I was wondering if you could explain a little more, for the appeals coming forward, why what we have in this bill is not going to deliver the benefits of that.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Monsieur Laliberté, it looks to me that the system proposed will not give independence. Do you agree? The deputy minister is going to have some views that may not be impartial. At the same time, we've increased the cost of the appeal. Do you have any further

Human Resources committee  They've put their money into it. We have already heard testimony about the capacity issues, so at the end of the day, do you worry that the new model will make the delays to get an appeal and to get a decision even worse?

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank all the witnesses. My first question is for Ms. Legault‑Thuot. As the government created a problem by offering those who work for the federal government 10 days of sick leave, while all the other companies offer only two?

Human Resources committee  Okay. My second question is for Mr. Bolduc. Mr. Bolduc, you said that you prefer to have provisions related to tripartite consultations. Could you explain that in more detail?