Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18

Chair: The Honourable PERCY MOCKLER

Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Issue No. 59

Fourth, fifth and sixth meetings:
Study on such issues as may arise from time to time relating to federal estimates generally, including the public accounts, reports of the Auditor General and government finance

• Minutes of Proceedings - January 31, 2018
• Minutes of Proceedings - February 6, 2018
• Minutes of Proceedings - February 7, 2018
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - January 31, 2018
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - February 6, 2018
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - February 7, 2018

WITNESSES

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Office of the Auditor General of Canada:

Michael Ferguson, Auditor General of Canada;

Jean Goulet, Principal;

Martin Dompierre, Principal.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat:

Cécile Cléroux, Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Resources Management Transformation Sector, Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer;

Tom Scrimger, Assistant Comptroller General, Financial Management, Office of the Comptroller General.

Public Services and Procurement Canada:

Les Linklater, Associate Deputy Minister;

Marc Lemieux, Assistant Deputy Minister of Pay Administration Branch;

Danielle May-Cuconato, Assistant Deputy Minister of Pay Stabilization Project.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Canadian Association of Professional Employees:

Greg Phillips, National President;

Claude Vézina, Executive Director.

Public Service Alliance of Canada:

Chris Aylward, National Executive Vice President;

Heather Finn, Special Projects Officer-Phoenix.

Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada:

Stéphane Aubry, Vice President;

Emily Watkins, Senior Advisor to the President.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Percy Mockler, Chair

The Honourable Mobina S.B. Jaffer, Deputy Chair

André Pratte, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Black, Campbell, Cools, *Day (or Mercer), Eaton, Forest, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), (or Mitchell), Marshall, Mercer, Mitchell, Neufeld, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Black replaced the Honourable Senator Dean (December 12, 2017).

The Honourable Senator Campbell replaced the Honourable Senator Marwah (December 12, 2017).