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Fisheries committee That's correct.
May 1st, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Fisheries committee I'm sorry?
May 1st, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Fisheries committee The Commissioner and the Minister have ordered an investigation that will be conducted by an independent investigator. This will be a Coast Guard investigation. We have undertaken to review the incident and all of our procedures and to ask this independent investigator—and indepe
May 1st, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Fisheries committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm delighted to be here again today. As you indicated, I am accompanied today by several departmental officials who will be able to help me answer your questions. I'll just spend a few minutes introducing the colleagues we have with us: the associate de
May 1st, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee I will be very brief, Mr. Chair. I have two comments before I go into the closing remarks. The first is that one of the members requested the regional breakdown in the business plan, and it is actually on page 66, so that the costs, the regional spread, are there. With regard t
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee The operating budget is also being looked at, at the moment, and we're building a business case for that. We do not want to, as we have done in the past, go all out and do all kinds of business cases that are half-baked. We want to do solid cases and bring them when they're ready
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee If I may, Mr. Chair, I think Mr. Da Pont did initiate such a request. Fisheries and Oceans and the coast guard received an amount of $99 million from the Treasury Board because we did put the business case to the board on capital. That was the core element, as indicated by the Au
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee It concerns the purchase of a vessel on the west coast.
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Of all of the purchases that we are currently involved with, the first process should cover the first 12. The call for tenders was posted, and we have received bids. This call for tenders includes specifications for the construction of 12 ships. Therefore, if there is a specific
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee All right, now I understand what you are trying to say. The calls for tenders are partly based on plans and specifications and partly on performance aspects. In fact, we based them on a design that had already been approved. It is not as though we rewrote the ships' specificatio
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Yes, Mr. Chairman. I could probably give you some order of magnitude.
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Yes, we could certainly do that.
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee I would agree, Mr. Chair, that is the case. However, I would also point out to the members of the committee that we have tabled a business plan. We have indicated our status report against that business plan, and we have been very clear about the areas we have met. One of the co
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee As the accounting officer, I will take the responsibility for that. As Mr. Da Pont said, it's not an excuse. There is work under way on every one of these. There is significant work under way. As we said at the outset, we have noted that the progress, as indicated by the Audit
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Not at this point, no, it is not.
March 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray