Government Operations committee  Perhaps, Mr. Chair, I'll start with the OECD principles. We do have two bodies that oversee procurements. The first one is the trade tribunal, the CITT, and the second organization is the Procurement Ombudsman. So we do have independent bodies. One is a tribunal, so it has a pow

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, again. It's still morning. We are here to present and discuss with the committee the measures that Public Works and Government Services Canada has put in place to uphold the public's trust in procurement and real property transactions. With

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. Good morning. I welcome this opportunity to present and discuss with the committee the measures that Public Works and Government Services Canada has put in place to uphold the public's trust in procurement and real p

Government Operations committee  I briefly mentioned in my opening remarks that in the interest of time, I would ask Mr. McBain to give us a brief overview of the status of the initiative at this particular juncture.

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I can speak to the specific question as to why we haven't flagged it in the RPP. Where there is a greening government component to it, whether it's an efficiency reduction or an improvement, we've actually tried to tag it by putting a little “g” beside the activity to s

Government Operations committee  The cost savings are integrated, Mr. Chair, in each one of them. They contribute to greening, and the savings are attributed to that. So they're attributed to two specific areas.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I assume it's directed to Public Works. I believe the committee has asked for and has received, or will receive shortly, some fairly detailed information on what steps and what types of initiatives we have taken to address some of your questions on en

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. What we have in the budget implementation act is a streamlining of the ability, which was already in the public works act, to provide services to the provinces and territories or other levels of government, but we have to do it every single time, for

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I think we have a significant amount of material in the public domain that we certainly can make available to the committee, but essentially the approach that we are now taking, and have indicated we are taking with the shipbuilding strategy, is to go

Government Operations committee  I can certainly provide you with that information. I do not have it on hand with me today.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I think we have put out that material publicly, so I will provide you what we have put forward in that regard.

Government Operations committee  It's an issue of supply and the timing of supply. When we make our request to the Treasury Board, and if it is accepted, then it will be appearing in the supplementary estimates. You will see it in that supply period at that time.

Government Operations committee  I have the list of projects somewhere in here. They are major. They deal with all of the main buildings of the parliamentary precinct, the East Block and the West Block. We also have the Macdonald building as well.

Government Operations committee  Yes, I mean the Sir John A. Macdonald Building and the Wellington Building. My colleague Pierre-Marc Mongeau has had a very rigorous approach to both the tendering and the project management. As you can imagine, when you are refitting heritage buildings, all kinds of things can

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, and I will defer, if that is possible, to Mr. McBain to answer that question.