Government Operations Committee on Nov. 6th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #151 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 energy.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Greening Government Strategy

MPs speaking

Tom Lukiwski
Francis Drouin
Kelly McCauley
Kyle Peterson
Daniel Blaikie
Yasmin Ratansi

Also speaking

Nick Xenos  Executive Director, Centre for Greening Government, Treasury Board Secretariat
Kevin Radford  Assistant Deputy Minister, Real Property Services, Department of Public Works and Government Services
Gail Haarsma  Acting Director, Sustainable Development Policy Division, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment
Carol Najm  Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services and Financial Branch, Department of the Environment
Julie Gelfand  Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General
Rob Nicholson  Niagara Falls, CPC
Jean Yip  Scarborough—Agincourt, Lib.

5:20 p.m.

NDP

Daniel Blaikie NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB

That's the perspective from the top, which is great; I'm not trying to devalue it. From the perspective of the person doing the legwork for securing those vehicles, though, what does it look like? How do they know to take these things into consideration when they're making a decision? That was something we heard earlier: that ultimately this is a departmental decision.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski

Mr. Blaikie, sometimes there are question best left unanswered—

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Voices

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski

—but in this particular case, I hope we do get an answer to that question.

Gentlemen and ladies, thank you so much for being here. I know that in many cases there is not enough time to give adequate answers to some pretty good question. I would suggest that, should any of you have any other additional comments, suggestions, or observations that you think would be of benefit to the committee, you submit them to our clerk. They will help form part of our final report. If you have any other suggestions, or if there are questions, such as Mr. Blaikie has posed, that you didn't have time to answer, you can certainly provide those as well.

Thank you all for being here.

Committee members, we are adjourned.