Government Operations committee  Certainly I have concerns on bias. Earlier they spoke about how these weren't state secrets that were being shared, but we know that state secrets don't need to be shared for opposition forces to create failures. Just look at something like the January 6 insurrection, right? No

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry.

Government Operations committee  At one point, they have to action these reports. They have to do something with them, and not just continue to look for what fits the narrative or goes to their predesigned destination. Continuing to look for other ways of addressing this isn't the problem. The problem is actua

Government Operations committee  I wouldn't know what they do. Whenever I go for an ATIP to find out this information, I either get no response or it's so heavily redacted that it's nearly impossible to find out. Some of these outsourced contracts have our own members. We try to gather information from both sid

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry. I don't have that information.

Government Operations committee  National Defence likes to sole-source a lot of contracts. I question the validity of the rationale for doing so from time to time.

Government Operations committee  We have a number of reservists who come in and work with National Defence. I don't know why we would hire them as a contractor when we can use their skill set as a reservist within National Defence.

Government Operations committee  This is not my area of expertise.

Government Operations committee  Again, that's outside my area.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry. I didn't catch that part.

Government Operations committee  Yes, please.

Government Operations committee  It's very disheartening for the members when they know that they are being underpaid for what they are doing. They see the people standing right next to them doing similar work and most often being paid much more than they are. It makes them feel like their work is being diminish

Government Operations committee  CFB Kingston is a really hard one. Around Christmastime, I received a phone call from the local president there, who told me that one of our members was in the hospital in a medically induced coma. It was suspected that he had contracted legionnaires' disease. Shortly thereafter

Government Operations committee  Absolutely, and without a doubt I have concerns. I have never seen contractors take a look and say that they should be going with the public service. I have never seen strong evidence for that. There always seems to be a reliance on skewed evidence that is not reasonable and doe

Government Operations committee  We have a great number of challenges. When we had the massive layoffs back in 2012—I think they were aiming for about 19,000—the layoffs that happened were not upper management and they weren't the directors; it was all the worker bees. It's these very same workers, those who do