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View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning. Mrs. Barrados, gentlemen, thank you for being here.
Mrs. Barrados, you may have to repeat yourself, but I want to make sure I fully understand what you said about appointments. On page 3 of your opening statement, you said and I quote:
We have identified gaps that need to be addressed with respect to processes involving Governor-in-Council appointments, political activities of public servants, and relations between the public service and the political sphere.
Further on, you said:
The Privy Council Office has processes in place with respect to GIC appointments [but you have no] assurance that the appointments [...] are merit-based [...].
Two things. You identified gaps, and, according to you, the Privy Council Office has a process in place.
Could you elaborate on the gaps you identified? Could you tell me what the process in place at the Privy Council Office is?
I would like to make another comment, and you can feel free to respond. It is no great secret that there are flaws in the appointment process at the Privy Council Office. There clearly seem to be some flaws. Why are you telling us about it today? Are you naive enough to think that the Privy Council Office's appointment process has no flaws?
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
You said you made the recommendation to Parliament. You are also making it to the committee, among others. That means that we, the committee members, should convey that recommendation. Did you put out any feelers to see if ministers or the Privy Council Office agreed with the recommendation?
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
So it does not affect the other 2,600.
The Privy Council Office is free to appoint individuals at its own discretion, without respecting any conditions, legislation or guidelines. That is what you are telling me. Approximately 2,600 people can be appointed without any oversight.
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
If memory serves, the last time you appeared before the committee, in October 2010, we discussed agencies that hired temporary staff to support public servants.
In the statement you made today, you said the House of Commons had an electronic recruitment system that apparently worked very well. You examined it yourself.
You said that if we used that electronic recruitment system, it would result in greater efficiencies, on one hand. On the other, you said we needed more proactive, integrated planning to reduce the need for temporary help agencies. You said so in your second point.
You give some suggestions. Could you give me a few examples?
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
Mr. Chair, if I may, I will share my time with my colleague.
Mrs. Barrados, I find point 2 on page 33 of your report highly interesting. In my opinion, you deserve some praise for that, since you did not shy away from taking a stand. Under the heading “Appointment by Governor in Council”, you said that the current regime allows the Governor in Council to appoint deputy heads and special advisers to ministers.
You recommend eliminating the Governor in Council's ability to appoint a special adviser to a minister. According to your rationale, the clause in the current regime does not limit the number of people that could be appointed. Furthermore, ministers already have the ability to appoint their own staff members, including their executive assistant.
That brings me back to my earlier question, to which you responded that out of approximately 3,000 appointments, you had the authority to investigate about 400, if I understood correctly. Roughly 2,600 appointments were not subject to the act. Could those fall under this category of appointments by the Governor in Council?
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
You would admit, Mrs. Barrados, this is nevertheless problematic. As I understand it, approximately 2,600 appointments are not subject to any oversight.
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
It could be someone like the fellow we read about in the papers last week. His girlfriend was able to take advantage of government contracts.
I am a visual person. I need concrete examples.
If I understand correctly, your powers are limited in this area.
I am going to give my last 30 seconds to my colleague.
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
View Diane Bourgeois Profile
BQ (QC)
I wanted to point out to the members of the committee that whenever we ask for a document to be translated, we always hear that it will delay the committee's proceedings. That is a damaging attitude. It will not necessarily take longer for the committee to do its work or for a document to come in just because we want it translated into French. I find that appalling.
Keep in mind that this document has been around since 2006. So it should have been made available in French a long time ago. I just wanted to make that clear, Mr. Chair.
Thank you.
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