Evidence of meeting #6 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 post.
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Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I wanted to ask another question for the benefit of the committee. I know that SSC is working on the ETI initiative in the data centres, but what other initiatives is SSC working on as well?
President, Shared Services Canada
Those are very large initiatives to start with. But there's also a network initiative related to consolidating the 50 siloed networks down into one network for the Government of Canada. Those three projects comprise work that is of an unprecedented scale in terms of the transformation. We also undertake many projects on behalf of the partners, our clients. Whether it's the biometrics project or other projects that are in the portfolio, we're involved in practically every initiative a department undertakes that involves IT infrastructure. There's a big suite of projects that are running for the RCMP, DND, or whichever department. There are literally hundreds of projects there.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I know a few years ago there were a few orders in council, and then you guys were responsible for the workplace technology initiative, and applications were still with Treasury Board. Is that still the case today, or are you guys completely responsible for everything related to IT?
Director General, Strategic Policy, Planning and Reporting, Shared Services Canada
No, Shared Services Canada is not responsible for the applications.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Thank you very much. That takes us to the end of our five-minute round.
Gentlemen and ladies, I thank you on behalf of all committee members for your appearances here today. The information that you have provided committee members has been very helpful and informative. Thank you again for taking time out to visit us today, and we hope to be talking with you again sometime in the upcoming years.
Yes, Mr. Drouin, go ahead.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Mr. Chair, I hope the whole committee will wish the deputy minister a happy retirement, which he announced last week. You share my comments.
Deputy Minister, Department of Public Works and Government Services
Thank you very much. I will certainly miss these appearances.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
To those officials who had to deliver answers in very constrained timelines, I thank you for your economy of words.
We will wait a few moments while our witnesses depart the table. In the interim, I will advise committee members that over the break week I will be asking the clerk to send out a communiqué indicating what we will be doing at the following Thursday's meeting. If we are able to bring in a group of witnesses to deal with some of the work identified by the subcommittee on agenda, we will have a full meeting. If not, then we will have a subcommittee meeting, but it will be during that time frame, between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., on Thursday, March 24.
Now we have votes before us, lady and gentlemen. These are on the supplementary estimates (C).
Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Where are the votes? Did I go and do something funny with my papers?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
I will be verbally going through them and asking for either your approval or your non-approval.
Liberal
Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL
Mr. Chair, which document in SharePoint should I open? I closed SharePoint by accident. Could somebody point me to the information?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
That's fine. Basically, all I will be doing is asking you verbally, for example, shall vote 1c under Privy Council carry?
You have all seen the estimates, so you have a determination now whether you want to approve them, amend them, or negative them. We will be going through that process verbally and asking for your show of hands.
Unless anyone wants a recorded vote, I will just be asking for yeas or nays.
PRIVY COUNCIL
Vote 1c—Program expenditures..........$3,644,076
(Vote 1c agreed to)
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Vote 1c—Program expenditures..........$1
(Vote 1c agreed to)
PUBLIC WORKS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Vote 1c—Operating expenditures..........$72,238,881
Vote 5c—Capital expenditures..........$40,231,331
(Votes 1c and 5c agreed to)
SHARED SERVICES CANADA
Vote 1c—Operating expenditures..........$20,712,999
Vote 5c—Capital expenditures..........$12,326,933
(Votes 1c and 5c agreed to)
TREASURY BOARD SECRETARIAT
Vote 1c—Program expenditures..........$43,981,086
Vote 20c—Public service insurance..........$469,200,000
(Votes 1c and 20c agreed to)
Finally, shall the committee request the chair to report the supplementary estimates back to the House tomorrow?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we've completed that. Thank you very much. I appreciate all your efforts.