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View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Gary Carr Profile
2005-11-24 9:36
Thank you very much.
It's always a pleasure to see you here. Thank you very much, and thank you to the other members of your staff as well.
In paragraph 4 you talk about the horizontal managing, horizontal initiatives, and I think that's a tremendous challenge to governments at all levels. I was wondering if you could be a little more specific about some of the things we could be doing, or the government could be doing. For example, in health care, where the government has put in money and they've said it should be applied to waiting lists, they're then making the provinces actually show what their waiting lists are.
Are these the types of initiatives you are talking about, and should it then obviously be the federal government that takes the lead when it's dealing with the provincial government? Maybe you could just expand a little bit on what you'd like to see the government do.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-24 9:40
My sense then is that there needs to be a lead ministry on that. Would you agree? I assume it would be Treasury Board. Is there some way that we can specifically say what is the ministry that should take the lead on doing this for the government?
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-24 9:41
I take it then, Mr. Campbell, there's something being done there. Would it mean expanding that department, it's just a case of resources that they're doing it case by case because there isn't enough to do, or should they take what is being done case by case and just make that generic, to be done on all occasions? Do you think it's a case of resources, or is it just that they're trying to do it case by case instead of applying it right across?
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-24 9:41
I want to address the other issue of the Employment Insurance Act. As you know, different committees had looked at that and had been pushing regarding the premium setting. I take it from your last comments in paragraph 39 that you now are comfortable that the government is setting the premium based on information that would be correct.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Gary Carr Profile
2005-11-24 9:42
And of course our challenge now is to make sure that happens. What would the timeframe be? For the government to be able to give them a reasonable timeframe, what would your suggestion be?
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-24 9:43
In paragraph 6, I think it was very important that you encouraged parliamentarians and government to pay more attention to the management and accountability of initiatives that cut across these organizational boundaries.
We've now talked a little about what the government should be doing. Specifically for us as parliamentarians, and maybe even specifically to this committee, is there anything we should be doing as a follow-up with ministries to ensure that the government pays more attention to issues of management accountability? Can you suggest anything that we could do as parliamentarians and as committee members?
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-24 9:44
Thank you.
As I've said a number of times, when you ask us to do something, you know I always pick your question out. When you say we might want to ask something, I always ask it. You kindly said that was kind of the intention.
I'll make a note to the chairman that you've requested that we look at the reporting horizontally. I think all members obviously heard you, but I'll point it out to the chairman.
We may get an opportunity to do that, because we'll continue on. If you put something in there and say we might want to ask this, you can rest assured we will do that.
Thank you again for your comments.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-03 10:41
Thank you very much to both of you. As has been expressed, our role—and I've said this a number of times and I'll say it again—as legislators is to hold the executive branch responsible, and we should do that in a non-partisan way. I think you've seen the frustration today, even on the government members' side. They've been as critical and as aggressive in expecting answers, and I think that's the way this committee should work, rather than with political wrangling.
I guess the way it should work is that we wouldn't need to do it, but in light of the fact that we have to do it, hopefully you will take back the sense of urgency we all feel.
My question is for the auditor. It's on your paragraph 13. You say we “may...wish to request updates on progress”. In your estimation, for the deputy and the department, what would be a fair set of progress updates that we could ask of the department?
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Gary Carr Profile
2005-11-03 10:43
Thank you. That's very helpful.
Just so I'm clear, a commitment at the end of the year to get it and then at six months.... I would ask the deputy whether he thinks he can meet those guidelines that the auditor would request.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-03 10:43
Thank you very much. We will look forward to those. As I said, it's part of our responsibility to carry forward what the auditor has said, so it's very helpful. I like to get very specific, and you have done that and been very specific. We will look for this over the next little while.
Thank you, both of you.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
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2005-11-03 11:02
Mr. Murphy said it more eloquently than I could, and I won't go over it, but I was very briefly going to say that if we are going to change the mandate, I agree with him, let's have a discussion.
As you saw today, I think our function can be to follow and do the work that needs to be done by the auditor. It worked properly today, in the way it should do. You saw members on this side being very aggressive towards the deputies. It's the way I think it should operate. If we get off on these political tangents, it will only hurt the committee. That's my first point.
On the second point, very quickly, it's my understanding that the Department of Canadian Heritage has an audit coming up that closes on November 8. I'm told that audits like this probably take until December 31. We could probably have an audit in our hands; I guess it's on the MERX. My suggestion would be that we wait for the audit. If we then find something in there, we can schedule meetings as a follow-up, as we did today, rather than going ad hoc, as we did today.
That would be my suggestion to this committee, for what it is worth, Mr. Chair.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Gary Carr Profile
2005-11-01 12:48
I have just a few questions for my friend. One deals with whether...following up on what Professor Franks said about this committee looking at it. It's my understanding that the industry committee may be looking at it as well, and I'm just wondering if you know that, because we don't want to get into duplication. Professor Franks just said that industry should be looking at something specific and we should be following up. I was wondering how we would handle that question.
So that's the first one.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Gary Carr Profile
2005-11-01 12:49
Thanks for your intervention. I'm just wondering if there is any clarification of whether the other committee is looking at it.
The second question, which I think is very important as well, is that, as you know, the agenda is taken up over the next little while, and in order to put something else on, I take it that, with this motion, when we get the audits we're going to then have some discussions and bring the minister in and so on. If we're going to do that, then I think we should be very clear, before we pass this motion, about what needs to be then dropped. Or are you saying that we should look at it--and I don't know what the timelines are--after December 1? The minister will need some time to get it.
So are we saying we're going to do it before December 1? If that is the case, then we definitely have to drop something else, because we have every day filled. What should we then drop if we're going to take this on?
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Gary Carr Profile
2005-11-01 12:50
With all due respect, I just wondered if the member who moved the motion could enlighten us on that. I'm asking this in all seriousness.
View Gary Carr Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Gary Carr Profile
2005-10-27 13:25
That is through me, Madam Chair.
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