National Defence committee  I can continue, thank you. I've lost my rhythm. At Defence we always have to pivot very quickly. I think we can bring that morale back, but it has to take a serious look at the staffing practices. What is more important to the department? Is it to have staff who are stable and

National Defence committee  It's very interesting, because I would think that the opposite would be true. I think that, because of National Defence security, you would want to have as much in-house as possible and that you would rely on public service professionals to provide those jobs. Once it's out in t

National Defence committee  Again, short term would be two years.

National Defence committee  Let's talk about morale because you heard my numbers. You almost have a 60% contractor-run organization. We talk about Defence and its mandate, and it needs to be able to have operational readiness and to be prepared at any time. I'm going to use an example of medical services.

National Defence committee  Again, from that perspective, Defence team members are super proud of the work they do. They know their mission, and they know that a service member on the other side is counting on them.

National Defence committee  I can only go from my experience. Some of that documentation is coming from the contractor. There's no one to enforce contractors bringing those documents forward. You know, how did they spend their money? That is part of the oversight we're missing. It's lack of transparency an

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I think the lines are very clear for me. We don't have experts who build planes. We don't have people who are designing military equipment. That is definitely something contracted out. However, once it hits our base and our formation, it is our job a

National Defence committee  I'd like to say that this problem goes back at least two decades. I started with the Department of Defence in 2006 and we have been on this issue, so this is not a partisan issue. This has become an overreliance. What has happened is that when it becomes easier to ask a contract

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, everybody, or good evening almost at this point. My name is Jennifer Carr and I'm the proud president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada. Among the 75,000 members we represent are almost 7,000 workers at the Dep

Information & Ethics committee  That's a big question. We're talking about performance management. I have lots of things to say on that as well. Yes, if you had a checklist of policies that you say they didn't comply with, then it is important to find out how many people filled out their ethics survey and tha

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's the whole point of the privacy impact assessment. What information are you trying to get? Let's talk about the time theft. Let's talk about whether people are at the workplace. Can we obtain that information through other means, other than going invasively through

Information & Ethics committee  I will actually be at the defence committee in two weeks, talking about contracting out. The overall accountability and the decentralization of responsibilities to departments has created an environment where it's hard for me to tell my members what rights they have, how they're

Information & Ethics committee  I'll definitely get you that directive so that every committee member knows that it is allowed.

Information & Ethics committee  They are entitled to their privacy, 100%. Again, we are Canadian citizens. We do not pledge allegiance to one government. We have autonomy. We can be political. We should not be able to lose our privacy rights just because we work for the federal government.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. It's a shared responsibility. But if you don't tell me up front what I can and cannot do, if you do not disclose that you are going to go in.... If I access a website to get at my photos, you can then delve through those spiderwebs and touch everything I've used. That has no