Kristina Tesser Derksen

Mr. Speaker, it is my honour today to recognize the recipient of the 2026 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, Georgetown's own Chris Cuthbert. Hockey Night in Canada Chris has been a dedicated member of the sports broadcasting community since his time at Queen's University, now serving over 45 years as a sports broadcaster. People might recognize him as the lead play-by-play commentator during CBC and [more]

Thank you so much for that. It's much appreciated. I also want to ask about the role of second-stage or transitional housing. I'm a former municipal councillor. Oftentimes, we will get calls or emails from people in the community who had seen folks who were unhoused and were looking for help. In my community, the region was responsible for emergency housing. We have several organizations, but [more]

Thank you for that very thorough answer. With the remainder of my time, Mr. Chair, I'd like to present a motion. I think there's been some discussion on this. No, I retract that. I guess we're going to do that after the witnesses have left.

Thank you. Considering that some of those initiatives are going to be more in the jurisdiction of a province, can you talk to us about your experience regionally across Canada? Have you seen patterns province to province, region to region, urban versus rural?

Thank you. You've also mentioned several times, and so has Dr. Demers, the lack of information to inform policies and best practice. It's really a question about data collection and how we're interpreting that data. Because data is really where we start and where we identify those problems, that's how we determine how it's going to affect people. Is that right? Could you comment on the state of [more]

Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. I have a motion that I want to move. I want to acknowledge my friend, Monsieur Lemire, for inspiring this motion and for doing such great work in bringing this issue before the committee. I think it's very important. To honour him, I'm going to read it into the record in French, so please bear with me. the committee invite Cliff Groen, associate deputy minister [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the witnesses. I often ask questions about workplace culture—how it informs the different processes and policies, how these are implemented, how they affect how money is spent and how we get our best value for it. I will ask a question of Ms. ShankarNarayan, if that's okay. The Auditor General, in her report, identified problems and some significant gaps. She [more]

Perfect. I will ask a question about pay accuracy, because it looks like we're at about 98.4% pay accuracy. That sounds pretty good to me, but there are still a few percentage points where we can make improvements. Can I ask how you might plan to close that gap of the final per cent and a bit?