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Government Operations committee Chair, we have not done any follow-up work per se. We are of course aware that members have been moved from the West Block and that work will begin--I presume imminently--or has begun on the West Block. But we have not done any follow-up, so I think that's a question that the dep
February 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Government Operations committee Chair, it was probably pretty easy for us to recommend that Parliament assume control of the buildings. As they say, the devil is in the details on how this would actually be structured. I think it is up to Parliament and government to determine. There has been work done in the
February 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Government Operations committee At the current time, Public Works and Government Services Canada is the custodian of the building. The two houses of Parliament will express their needs to Public Works, but then Public Works has to try to negotiate the funding. Parliament is not involved in those discussions. Th
February 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Government Operations committee Mr. Chair, we thank you for this opportunity to meet with the committee to discuss chapter 3 of our 2010 spring report, “Rehabilitating the Parliament Buildings”. I'm accompanied today by Sylvain Ricard, Assistant Auditor General, who was responsible for this audit. The importa
February 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee If the PSIC wishes to have our opinion on the process, we would be pleased to offer it.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee If the committee has questions on the appointment process in general, you should call on the Privy Council. I would find it highly unlikely that the Privy Council could discuss a specific case, given the confidentiality rules and Privacy Act.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee Just to clarify, Chair, we have not done a review of the act. I don't think it would be appropriate for us to do that. I think the office and others, obviously, have commented. There have been comments in newspapers and elsewhere about issues within the act. We started to do the
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, I find that to be a very harsh judgment.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee We see that an acting commissioner was appointed today and that he will begin on Monday. Mr. Friday has already said that there would be an external review. We therefore note that measures have been taken to restore the credibility of the office. It is my hope that people will co
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee I cannot answer that.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee No. We would be looking more at our accountability to Parliament and how we can provide assurance to parliamentarians and the public around the management of our office and around the conduct of carrying out our mandate. I really think the whole question of appointments and the
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee Chair, just briefly, the guidance we were looking at was with relation to the allegation concerning the carrying out of the mandate. So we were looking to see if there was guidance to staff on how to conduct investigations and that sort of thing. We didn't get into the broader
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee One of the fundamental issues, I think, is that this is a very new office. It's been in existence now for, what, only three years? So it's perhaps understandable, or there can be an explanation given as to why there aren't a lot of investigations or why there's turnover. There ca
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee Is there something--were there many unions in here? Was there one union? Why was the union not more sensitive to some of this? On the question of parliamentary committees, there were questions asked in hearings about the lack of investigations and the fact that there were no cas
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser
Public Accounts committee I'm just being told too that another thing is the whole consideration of the act. We've noted some difficulties with the act--
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Sheila Fraser