Government Operations committee  Yes, there are many variables. There's whether or not you own the land, and whether the building is a cookie-cutter type of building, or whether it's a special purpose, iconic building such as this. Obviously that factors a lot into the planning process. It depends very much on

Government Operations committee  Maybe I can add something to this. In our system, ministers and their deputy heads are responsible for the administration of assets under their departments. For example, the Minister of Public Works is responsible for office building accommodations. The Minister of Agriculture w

Government Operations committee  Mr. Martin, I can't speak for Public Works; I am with the Treasury Board Secretariat. But I certainly can assure you that as far as I am aware, we have no policies or directives or standards—or guidelines, for that matter—that instruct public servants to increase the use of asbes

Government Operations committee  Hello, Madam Bourgeois. I only want to add to Ms. Burack's statements. You'll recall that I was actually here on Tuesday of this week. We talked about the life cycle of an asset and that there are really four phases, which are planning, acquisition, the use of the asset, and th

Government Operations committee  Yes. Departments will be required to report in 2008-09, so it is this fiscal year that is ending. They will be required to report in their departmental performance reports against their green procurement objectives.

Government Operations committee  The reports on plans and priorities, as well as the departmental performance reports, are available to all Canadians. I believe they're tabled in Parliament, in fact.

Government Operations committee  No. Monsieur Roy, unfortunately I'm not aware of the particular transactions of which you speak, but I can certainly say that since the federal contaminated sites action plan was put in place a number of years ago there has been an extensive effort by all departments, including

Government Operations committee  I would say that there are some properties that have been offered for sale on the market for which there are no takers.

Government Operations committee  We don't capture, in the directory of federal real property, the value of each individual parcel. As you can well imagine, we have in the directory roughly 45,000 buildings owned and leased, and there are about 25,000 properties. The only time you would estimate the market value

Government Operations committee  Ms. Bourgeois, I think the 40 buildings to which you are referring belong to the Department of Public Works and Government Services. These buildings are only some of this department's holdings. We are not in a position to answer the question about the future of the other 30 build

Government Operations committee  I'll take this question. In the DFRP, the directory of federal real property, we have all the properties, with the addresses and locations. We gave you the website. It's in your deck, at the very last—

Government Operations committee  Yes, you can access that.

Government Operations committee  Ms. Chaput spoke of the Federal Real Property Directory. This inventory holds profiles of real property, summaries of real property, municipal and regional profiles, maps and photographs, but it does not include detailed information on each and every building. We keep information

Government Operations committee  ... that take you to other departments' databases.

Government Operations committee  For the most part, yes. One of the responsibilities of a good real property custodian is—