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Government Operations committee  We don't have that.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  Well, that's what we discussed in camera.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  Well, this is, I suppose, a bit of a philosophical discussion about the value of outsourcing. We do—

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  As I mentioned earlier, we actually have about 1,100 people. In fact, Martin was one of the 470 people who were laid off. He is working in this contract 10 years later and is now the general manager of our contract. That seems to me to be quite a success story. For me, the answer is that we operate more than 100 million square feet of space across Canada.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  It really comes back to that discussion we had in camera.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  That would be about 50%.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  We pay the utility bill, and we talked about our fee on that.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  For the total value of the contract as per the Treasury Board submission at that time, I'm actually not even sure what the number was, Mr. Martin. My guess is that it would be something like $5 billion to allow the headroom for the full 10 years.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  I'll let Martin go through some details, but really what we're trying to do is test on an ongoing basis how we are carrying out work. We have to test a number of things. These aren't just financial audits. They are health and safety audits, which are extremely important to us. We need to be able to keep our people, our subcontractors, our building occupants, and everyone who uses the building safe, so that is an area of audit.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  It really is face value. It's exactly what I talked about to this committee. That's what is in it. We have the validation of what's in there. We think those are reasonable costs, given the complexity of the installations. There is really nothing to hide on them.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  Yes, it really is not... And maybe just to clarify, we have a significant maintenance component within our team. We are, I think, the largest employer of building maintainers, electricians, and operators in Canada. We have 1,100 people working on this contract, so it's a significant piece of work.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  Absolutely, yes.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure. You might be?

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate

Government Operations committee  I suppose that would be me. The one thing maybe I should point out is that we are extensively audited, not only internally by the quality control group that I have reporting to me, but our parent company, SNC-Lavalin, also has a series of audit groups, both internally and externally, that audit us.

June 7th, 2010Committee meeting

Charles Rate