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Public Accounts committee We were not asked to.... Our request from Parliament was not to review their model, sir.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Public Accounts committee We don't know what their model is.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee Thank you for the question. When we produced this report for parliamentarians a year ago, public estimates were not easily readily available for the F-35A variant, nor were long-term sustainment costs, so at that time we felt this would be.... Well, we were asked to produce this
April 26th, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee That's $148 million, sir. So as countries decide to postpone delivery, it does two things: it potentially reduces the cost, but then all the other aircraft subsequent to that point actually then have to absorb the cost increase, because essentially we're looking at what has been
April 26th, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee Effectively, if you look at where Canada was originally looking to purchase, that point would have been in a fairly high level of this current learning curve associated with the production in the low-rate initial production, which would have been a relatively high cost compared t
April 26th, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee Thank you for the question, Mr. McKay. Right now the program is in what is referred to as low-rate initial production. So you have net R and D costs, you have relatively high costs associated with small batches of early production associated with the risks and challenges at that
April 26th, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Government Operations committee When we try to describe in our reports what's available to parliamentarians in the way of information, we try to ask for things already collected in the ordinary course of business. The idea is not to impose a new activity burden or a new cost burden on the government. We can sho
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Government Operations committee I think that it is all about synchronization. Yes, we think that it can help parliamentarians to understand the process. It is really a matter of whether they want to see the two things integrated, perhaps by changing the calendar. Actually, some countries introduce two bills at
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Government Operations committee I would also add that, in order to make the process more effective, it might be a good idea to incorporate the budget bill into the supply bill, as some countries do. The two would be a bit more in sync. That would enable parliamentarians to deal with only one amount and to focus
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee We'll be releasing a report tomorrow that looks at the quarterly financial reporting of the departments, and, in advance, you'll note that some departments do report the impacts of the Budget 2000 freeze. So there are some high water marks, and it could be very helpful for parlia
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee One of the things we do—not only do we provide this integrated monitor and database for parliamentarians, but on a quarterly basis we provide an expenditure monitor that provides reporting of major variances in items. That report provides an opportunity for us to scrub some of th
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee In our view, there's not actually a material financial issue—this is an internal, relatively minor, coding issue between the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Receiver General. Our understanding is that it's actually being resolved as we speak.
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee It's just a question of the level of aggregation of the financial reporting, a couple of categories between the report the Treasury Board Secretariat provided and the information received by the Receiver General and Public Works. There was an aggregation of a few categories. By
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee Correct. There was no actual material issue, financially. We've contacted them and they've resolved it.
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
Sahir Khan
Finance committee I think the $10 million that was in the reporting is correct. The $100 million is for the full category.
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
Sahir Khan