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{
    "time": "2009-10-22 09:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Elizabeth Denham",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1660866\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I'm not the expert on the answer to these questions, but my understanding is yes, we have had high turnover for the last three years. The reasons for that.... The workload is heavy. As well, there's natural churn of these kinds of professionals, who are doing access and privacy work among the various agencies. They're in high demand, so it's very difficult to keep them in our agency. We hope by sending them through our in-house, six-week training process they'll feel more confident and hit the ground running. We're doing what we can. We don't think it's a salary issue. We just think there are many opportunities, especially after so many federal agencies became subject to the Access to Information and Privacy Acts over the last two years.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1660866\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne suis pas experte en la mati\u00e8re, mais je crois comprendre que nous avons eu un taux de roulement \u00e9lev\u00e9 ces trois derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Les raisons... La charge de travail est lourde. En outre, il y a un taux de roulement naturel dans cette cat\u00e9gorie de professionnels qui sont sollicit\u00e9s par divers organismes. Ce sont des personnes dont les services sont tr\u00e8s demand\u00e9s et il nous est tr\u00e8s difficile de les garder chez nous. Notre espoir est que le programme de formation de six semaines que nous avons mis sur pied leur permettra d'\u00eatre rapidement productifs. Nous faisons notre possible. Nous ne pensons pas que ce soit une question de salaire. C'est plut\u00f4t qu'il y a beaucoup d'autres possibilit\u00e9s offertes par beaucoup d'organismes f\u00e9d\u00e9raux qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 assujettis \u00e0 la Loi sur l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'information et \u00e0 la Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels ces deux derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/ethics/40-2/32/elizabeth-denham-10/",
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    "politician_membership_url": null,
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2903970",
    "document_url": "/committees/ethics/40-2/32/",
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}