I'm very proud and pleased to be able, on behalf of the Clerk's management group, and in fact on behalf of the entire House administration, to present our strategic plan 2023-2026 and to seek your approval to have it tabled in the House.
This plan is the result of extensive consultations with members of the management group, their extended teams and many employees who participated in consultation sessions over the past year.
The mandate of the House administration is to support you, the members of Parliament, in the fulfillment of your duties. We may have other clients—for instance, the public, the media or the diplomatic corps—but our raison d'être is to anticipate and respond to the needs and requests of members.
The plan serves as a road map to guide the House administration's efforts to provide exceptional, integrated and accessible services to members, enabling them to carry out their essential functions as parliamentarians. The House administration has many ideas, projects and initiatives to better support members but does not, obviously, have the human, financial or IT capacity to undertake them all at the same time.
Therefore, the strategic plan will serve as a road map and assist in allowing us to prioritize initiatives and to align resources to allow for the most efficient delivery of services.
Our “One House, One Team” vision reinforces the idea that we have a common purpose and reminds us that we must work as one team to anticipate your needs as parliamentarians and offer you simplified, personalized, high-quality services.
Our mission underlines our commitment to fostering dialogue and enabling everyone, whatever their role within the organization, to contribute to our services and innovate with the aim of supporting MPs to serve parliamentary democracy.
At the heart of the strategic plan are our values: integrity, service excellence, collaboration and inclusion. They define who we are and what matters most to us. We take particular pride in serving all parties and all the members of each party equally. It is at the core of what we are as a parliamentary administration.
During the 2023‑26 period, the work of the House Administration will be guided by three key strategic priorities.
First, we focus on our people, to ensure a healthy, diverse workforce whose members feel integrated and well supported in their professional development and careers.
We make our workplace another priority. We are committed to ensuring an adaptable, information-driven, connected and safe workplace to facilitate work now and in the future.
Finally, by focusing on our service delivery, we will continue to create a seamless, integrated, accessible and MP‑centric experience.
Finally, our strategic plan now includes three leadership commitments. These commitments are important for my management group and for me, as they set the foundation for achieving the goals laid out in the plan and are meant to speak to leaders in the broadest sense and at all levels.
More concretely, here are a few examples of how we will bring the strategic plan 2023-2026 to life.
We will implement our accessibility plan to fulfill our obligations under the Accessible Canada Act. Work will continue to modernize and rehabilitate the Centre Block. We will continue to improve the quality of reporting and public disclosures, and provide you with a new system to submit and manage your claims and view your budget reports, whether working from the office, from home or on the go. We will begin using automated speech recognition technology to more quickly and efficiently produce Hansard. We will implement a new modern HR talent management system.
These are but a few of the many initiatives.
To conclude, we will continue to support you by assessing your needs, developing and implementing solutions, and monitoring and evaluating our services' efficiency and effectiveness. Major initiatives will always be brought to the board for approval, and we will continue to immediately react to directives from the board or other decision-making bodies, such as the Liaison Committee or the Joint Interparliamentary Council.
Thank you for your time. I will now be pleased to answer your questions.