Treasury Board Ministers have agreed to provide support to the government-wide initiatives of the CIO Year 2000 Project Office. That the Treasury Board Secretariat recognize the growing competition for the services of individuals with the skills needed to resolve the Year 2000 challenge and draw up an internal contingency staffing plan. The Government recognizes the growing competition for the services of individuals with the skills needed to resolve the Year 2000 challenge. Human resource policies that could exacerbate the difficulty of resolving the Year 2000 problem are being adjusted. The RFP includes a number of financial incentives designed to attract and retain the most capable resource pool.
Departments are responsible for their own human resources activities.
Treasury Board Secretariat is supporting departments with a recruitment, retention and training program to enable the Government to retain technical resources. That the Treasury Board Secretariat ensure that all departments and agencies that deliver programs that are exposed to risk and that directly affect the health, security, and economic well-being of Canadians, have contingency plans proportional to the level of risks involved in place to sustain those programs in the event of systems failure on 1 January 2000. Departments will be asked to present these to the Treasury Board Secretariat. That the Chief Information Officer Branch and the Year 2000 Project Office attach a priority to quality service delivery to citizens and that it communicate this priority to all government departments and agencies. The Government has placed a priority focus on the key mission critical systems which have an impact on the health, safety, security and economic well-being of Canadians.