Public Accounts Committee on May 3rd, 2012
Evidence of meeting #42 for Public Accounts in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was costs.
A recording is available from Parliament.
On the agenda
MPs speaking
Also speaking
- Kevin Page Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
- Sahir Khan Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Expenditure and Revenue Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
- Peter Weltman Senior Director, Expenditure and Revenue Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
- Michelle d'Auray Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat
- Robert Fonberg Deputy Minister, Department of National Defence
- Dan Ross Assistant Deputy Minister, Materiel, Department of National Defence
- François Guimont Deputy Minister, Deputy Receiver General for Canada, Department of Public Works and Government Services
- André Deschamps Commander, Royal Canadian Air Force, Department of National Defence
- Simon Kennedy Senior Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Industry
- Kevin Lindsey Assistant Deputy Minister, Chief Financial Officer, Finance and Corporate Services, Department of National Defence
- Tom Ring Assistant Deputy Minister, Acquisitions Branch, Department of Public Works and Government Services
May 3rd, 2012 / 8:55 a.m.
Sahir Khan Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Expenditure and Revenue Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
Sir, we actually made a number of requests after the finance committee motion to get additional details. We have these actually published on our website.
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Conservative
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Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Expenditure and Revenue Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
Actually, sir, we have not been provided with the details of the modelling exercise. The response we had was that they were using information provided by the project office.
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Conservative
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Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Expenditure and Revenue Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
We were not asked to.... Our request from Parliament was not to review their model, sir.
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Conservative
Andrew Saxton North Vancouver, BC
My request from me, today, is to explain the difference between your costing model and DND's costing model.
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Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Expenditure and Revenue Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
We don't know what their model is.
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Conservative
Andrew Saxton North Vancouver, BC
You don't know what their model is. Okay. Very good.
In your report, Mr. Page, did you mention fuel, salaries, and other operating costs?
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Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
Sir, when we provided.... When we are working with proprietors in this sort of case, we work with standard definitions of operating and support. We are working from U.S. definitions, which map very closely, as we highlighted in our opening remarks in our text.
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Conservative
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Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament
Yes.
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NDP
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Andrew Saxton North Vancouver, BC
Can you please provide the background information to our committee?
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The Chair David Christopherson
Order, please.
Mr. Saxton, you're not starting out in the greatest way. You're pushing. I had asked you to come to order. At that moment, if somebody wants to say something, I'll listen to them, but you went in after the wire.
The question will stand. Your colleagues can pick up on it later, but your time has expired.
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