Finance committee  Yes. On the recourse of being fair and transparent, I don't think it is, because in our minds it's not recourse at all. With any change to the act, rather than a deletion of subsection 54(2), I would prefer it to be amended to read that staffing and staffing recourse may be barga

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  The recourse for those who are not.... When you qualify for a position you're in a pool, and there could be 30 people in that pool. Then they make selection criteria to pick people out of the pool to give them a job. Where we have the difficulty is, why did you pick that one and

Finance committee  Well, that would be unheard of in the public service, but it's not a novel idea.

Finance committee  Certainly the internal centralization of compensation would have no impact on the taxpayer. On the call centres, whether I call Ottawa to get my question answered or whether I call Shawinigan I don't think has much bearing. However, what I heard from the previous group, and the

Finance committee  I was interviewed, yes, and Shane was, as well.

Finance committee  The auto industry, or train industry, maybe.

Finance committee  Forty-five thousand.

Finance committee  That would be 26,000.

Finance committee  But there's management.

Finance committee  Unionized?

Finance committee  There are two things—well, three—that we've done specifically for term or specified-period-of-time workers. One is, we conducted a joint study with the employer on the employment of term employees. There have been 29 recommendations made to the CRA with respect to term employme

Finance committee  I don't know if you're aware, but the Union of Taxation Employees and the PSAC have a major campaign going on right now respecting the client service counters. The CRA is going to appointment only. You will not be able to walk into the client service counter to get a copy of yo

Finance committee  Thank you. It was directed to the alliance, so I'll take this one. Some of the things that have been centralized are our compensation service delivery, which is our HR; call centres, for collections and forms and information; our warehousing, which has been reduced from about

Finance committee  If you leave it the way it is and not amend it, we'll be able to bargain staffing. I mean, we will continue to meet with the CRA and do our best to convince them to change the staffing regime to include this, and so on. The act specifically states it will not be part of the barga