Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

Issue 3 - Fourth Report of the Committee

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

The Standing Senate Committee on National Finance has the honour to present its

FOURTH REPORT

Your Committee, to which was referred Bill S-201, An Act to amend the Public Service Employment Act (elimination of bureaucratic patronage and geographic criteria in appointment processes) has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Thursday, June 22, 2006, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendment:

Pages 1 and 2, clause 3:

(a) Page 1: Delete lines 16 to 25.

(b) Page 2: Replace lines 1 to 10 with the following:

``3. (1) Section 34 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

(3) When establishing a geographic criterion in an advertised external appointment process, the Commission shall establish a national area of selection.

(2) Subsection 34(3) of the Act, as enacted by''.

Respectfully submitted,

JOSEPH A. DAY

Chair