Government Operations Committee on March 20th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #122 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was phoenix.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Subject-matter of the Supplementary Estimates (C), 2017-18: Votes 1c, 5c and L7c under Department of Public Works and Government Services, Vote 3c under Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Vote 1c under Privy Council Office, Votes 1c and 5c under Shared Services Canada and Votes 1c, 15c, 20c and 30c under Treasury Board Secretariat

Subject-matter of the Interim Estimates 2018-19: Vote 1 under Canada Post Corporation, Vote 1 under Canada School of Public Service, Vote 1 under Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat, Vote 1 under Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board, Votes 1 and 5 under Department of Public Works and Government Services, Vote 1 under Office of the Governor General's Secretary, Vote 1 under Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Vote 1 under Office of the Public Secto

Committee Business

Members speaking

Before the committee

Carla Qualtrough Minister of Public Services and Procurement

Les Linklater Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Public Works and Government Services

Marie Lemay Deputy Minister, Department of Public Works and Government Services

Michael Vandergrift Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Public Works and Government Services

Sarah Paquet Executive Vice-President, Shared Services Canada

Commissioner Alain Duplantie Senior Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Services, Shared Services Canada

Marty Muldoon Chief Financial Officer, Finance and Administration Branch, Department of Public Works and Government Services

12:40 p.m.

Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

Mr. McCauley, I take it as an offence—

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Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

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Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

I have to see it in French.

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Liberal

The Vice-Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi

Okay. Seeing that majority wants—

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Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

It's the International Day of La Francophonie!

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Liberal

The Vice-Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi

Order.

Mr. McCauley—

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Conservative

Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB

I will take it that I don't have unanimous consent.

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Liberal

The Vice-Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi

Mr. McCauley, you can put it on notice and we will look after it.

Thank you to all the witnesses for being here. Thank you for your participation.

We'll suspend for a couple of minutes before we go to committee business.

[Proceedings continue in camera]