John McCallum at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.

March 5th, 2013 / 12:40 p.m.

Liberal

John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON

Thank you.

I gather from the earlier discussion that the LEED standard and the BOMA standard are in some sense competitive. You mentioned that yours applied more to the existing stock and theirs more to new buildings.

I don't want to pit witness against witness, but I can't help but notice that in the REALpac submission on page 8, recommendation 5 says:

Commitment of the federal government...to achieve LEED NC Gold for all new buildings, and LEED EB Gold for its entire inventory over the next 10 year period.

So does that mean you're exhibiting a preference for the LEED standard?

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