Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much.

Public Accounts committee  This is based on just general background, but yes, they have at least a limited ability to stand alone. They have separate power generation for emergencies; they have their own military communication systems, which are not entirely network-dependent. So they have some capability

Public Accounts committee  I think it's a question you should ask the department. But if you look at it in terms of complexity and certainty, there's a scale that starts with the RG-31, where we in effect went into the dealership and bought it off the showroom floor, and goes down to the LAV-3, where inste

Public Accounts committee  Yes, just to clarify. The fourth vehicle, the one there has been some problems with, is the creation of a new variant of the standard LAV-3. The intent was to remove the turret, which is quite heavy with the 25-millimetre gun on it, and to replace it with a remote weapon system v

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. I think the section you're talking about is the element on what's called “capability-based planning”, whereby you develop a series of scenarios—essentially anticipated situations that the department's going to find itself in—then assess the capabilities you

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. This audit was all about balance, the balance that Corrections Canada establishes among its three major roles: custody, rehabilitation, and operating an efficient and economical organization. We were concerned in the audit to find that we felt things were o

Public Accounts committee  During the period of the audit, as we have pointed out.... The two relevant sections of the report, Mr. Chair, begin with paragraph 7.69 and go through to paragraph 7.79. To summarize them, we certainly understand that the focus of management is on custody and rehabilitation; tho

Public Accounts committee  The reason we looked at it in this context was that it was relevant to the scope of our investigation of the economic and efficient management of resources. Security resources are among the key things the department manages. We had looked at overtime previously. This time we wer

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask Mr. Stock to address that one.

Public Accounts committee  We expected that CSC's management would have factored that into the type of analysis that we would have expected they had done. Our expectation was that management would have been looking at its cost structures, would have been discussing with industry—food delivery being one exa

Public Accounts committee  I will ask Mr. Stock to address this, but there are limits on how much we can say, because the information that was given to us is proprietary to the industries involved. That said, I'll ask that Mr. Stock respond.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, that's entirely correct. What we were looking for was evidence that the commission had done the types of analyses they should have done in order to be assured themselves, and to provide others with assurance, that they were spending their money with due regard, rather than a

Public Accounts committee  We did both, Mr. Chair. We talked to representatives from other correctional services, both within Canada and internationally, and we also looked at other institutions that were engaged in the mass delivery of things like food and cleaning products, both in the hospitality and ho

Public Accounts committee  We also talked to people in the hospitality industry who are involved in supplying food services to very large chains, some of which operate not only in the large cities but in the small towns of Canada. Again, the indications were that in that environment, economies were possibl

Public Accounts committee  There were a variety of issues there. I think one of the key ones was that the model really needed to be expanded—and I think Corrections agrees with us on this—to look more at the implications for overtime and whether or not there were circumstances in which essentially what loo