As regards the requests to send written tests (b) and (c), in so far as they related to the applicant’s test papers and the evaluation sheets for those papers drawn up by the selection board, EPSO did not act on them within the time-limits laid down in Section D.4 of the notice of competition, nor did it attach those documents to the e-mail of 14 September 2009; however a copy of the applicant’s papers and the evaluation sheets drawn up by the selection board for each of the tests were sent to her during the course of the proceedings, specifically by a letter from EPSO of 16 June 2010, and those documents appear in the case-file as anne ...[+++]xes to the Commission’s defence.

With this in mind, Madam Chair, I fully intend to continue to monitor the performance of federal institutions in access to information through my report cards and systemic investigations, which are, in my opinion, key tools in assessing institutions' performance and also in protecting the rights of Canadians.

In that connection, although the Civil Service Tribunal, accepted that it was not for it to determine the items of information which the Commission must communicate to the person concerned in order to satisfy its obligation to state reasons, it observed, in particular, that certain additional particulars, such as the intermediate marks for each of the assessment criteria laid down in the notice of competition and the evaluation sheets, could have been sent to Mr Meierhofer with any items of information covered by the secrecy of the selection board’s proceedings blacked out without disclosing either the attitudes adopted by individual mem ...[+++]bers of the selection board or any factors relating to individual or comparative assessments of candidates (paragraphs 50 and 51 of the judgment under appeal).

We believe that updated municipal digital photograph entry and cross-referencing should be included in that, and extensive personal descriptor entry and cross-referencing as well as geo-mapping and geographic profiling.

Health Canada chose not to follow this advice, instead issuing health alert notice cards.

Bright, cherry-coloured posters and cards, referred to as health alert notices, inform passengers departing from Pearson about the symptoms of SARS and direct people not to travel if they are exhibiting these symptoms.