Kelly Block
- Born
- November 30, 1961
- Political Experience
- Mayor of Waldheim, Saskatchewan (two terms); Member of Parliament for Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar (elected 2008); Member of Parliament for Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek (elected 2015)
- Notable
- First female mayor of Waldheim; Chairperson of the Gabriel Springs Health District; Appointed to the Saskatoon Regional Health Authority; Maclean's Parliamentarian of the Year – Rising Star – Award (2010); Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Natural Resources (September 2013); Conservative critic for Transport; Opposition critic for Public Services and Procurement Canada; Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (October 15, 2020)
Where Kelly falls on key policy spectrums
Your Money
People & Society
How We're Governed
Land & Community
Right, so Canadian taxpayers will be responsible to pay for it if Canada Post does not find itself in a position to do so. We did ask a Canada Post official for the loan agreement, and she told us she would communicate our request to her superiors. We have yet to receive it, even though at this committee we expect requests for information to be met within three weeks. Ms. Reza, can you agree to [more]
What about the service levels within the public service? If we are moving ahead with laying off the number of public servants that has been proposed, they say that the service levels Canadians are receiving will not be impacted. Do you agree with that assessment?
Thank you so much for that. Public Services and Procurement Canada has failed to meet, in four of the last five years, their department's targets to process pay-related cases within the service standards we've just been talking about, yet departments have said that the government's expenditure review, which we're talking about today, will not have any service-level impacts. Do you agree with [more]
minister Thank you very much. I will just note that themade the announcement of that transformation plan at a time when there was still job action taking place and there was a sense of urgency around that. He's had that plan for four months and has not yet rendered a decision on it. Thanks.
Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Ms. Reza and your other departmental officials, for joining us today, including Shared Services Canada. I know it is our bureaucracies that tend to do a lot of the heavy lifting once direction is provided to you from the government. I know that we are here to discuss supplementary estimates (C) and that this is the third request by the government for additional [more]
The Parliamentary Budget Officer, in his report on the supplementary estimates, noted a section on frozen allotments. In your opening remarks, Ms. Reza, I think you spoke about funding being transferred from one department to another, but you have absolutely no idea how this money is being transferred to Canada Post in the form of a loan.
I think you've answered my question by saying that it's net new dollars. It's not something that's being transferred across departments. I thank you for that. Minister Lightbound You mentioned the minister's last appearance at committee. That was on February 10. At the time,said that it was his “heartfelt wish” that Canadians would get their money back from the loans to Canada Post. Are there [more]
Thank you, Chair. Thank you to all of you for joining us today. My questions are going to be directed to Mr. O'Reilly and Ms. Poirier. We've talked about the fact, which you noted in the report you released on the 10 years of the Phoenix pay system, that the Liberals continue to spend on outside consultants and are planning to spend $26 billion on outside consultants. You've outlined very well [more]
Thank you very much.