Government Operations committee  Casual employees are not subject to the Employment Equity Act, so the employer doesn't have to meet employment equity objectives with casual employment.

Government Operations committee  The statistic comes from the 2005 public service employee survey, a voluntary survey that employees are encouraged to fill out. A similar survey was done in 2002, and one before that in 1999. The specific questions related to harassment and discrimination were the same for 2002 a

Government Operations committee  As a practice, we do, yes. We represent our members in respect of harassment and discrimination, but just to be clear, sir, about these data, these surveys are anonymous, so the people who report experiences of harassment and discrimination do so anonymously. We don't follow up w

Government Operations committee  Correct.

Government Operations committee  Would you like to ask a question about that?

Government Operations committee  The answer is that we didn't achieve the objective. The objective was for one in five external recruits to be a member of a racialized community. Over the course of three years, the best the government achieved was one in ten, in one of the three years.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. If I may, just for the moment, I'd like to speak to the matter of employment equity in the federal public sector. As you may well know, despite a very well-resourced initiative that took place between the years 2000 and 2003, the number of racialized workers within the