Nick Whalen at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.

May 17th, 2016 / 4 p.m.

Liberal

Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I'll be sharing two minutes of my time with Mr. Drouin. If you could give me a heads-up at the five-minute mark, that would be great.

Thank you all for attending today.

I'll jump right in with a couple of questions for Minister Foote in respect of the modernizing, procurement, and greening government initiatives she spoke of in her opening comments.

Something that has come before the committee a couple of times now is what seems to be a slight disconnect on the procurement side between the responsibility of Public Services and Procurement Canada and that of Shared Services Canada with respect to IT procurement.

Can the minister inform the committee whether there are other areas in which PSPC is still doing IT procurement and why most of the IT procurement has been outsourced, it seems, to SSC?

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