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A Liberal senator is concerned that senior military officers are receiving a disproportionate number of public service jobs available to injured Canadian Forces members and he wants a new accounting of how those positions are being distributed.

Senator Percy Downe said he has received complaints from military members that injured lower ranked personnel are being passed over for federal positions in favour of officers who have been medically released from the Canadian Forces.

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Since 2005, those medically released from the Canadian Forces have been eligible for priority employment appointments in the federal public service.

Downe said he has tried to get to the bottom of the issue but has been stymied because the Public Service Commission, the organization monitoring federal hiring, doesn’t keep the needed information.

The PSC says it isn’t feasible to collect such data using its current computer systems.