Government Operations Committee on May 18th, 2017

[Brian Pagan]

It's a two-dimensional or two-phase approach, Mr. Whalen.

First of all, within the Treasury Board Secretariat, there is an office of the chief information officer, who provides direction, standards, and guidance on project development and IT tools across the public service, including to SSC.

With respect to the go-forward plan on SSC, I think there was reference to a report from the Gartner group. The operating model of Shared Services Canada was assessed by TBS last year. We hired an independent third party to help us with this, in the form of the Gartner report. That report was presented to us in January. It has recently been the subject of some deliberation at cabinet. Looking ahead into future supplementary estimates, there will be a decision, a request for new funding, and a presentation to Parliament of the authorities for that.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

Thank you.

I'd like to suspend the meeting for two minutes and excuse the witnesses. We will come back in public to vote on the main estimates.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

Committee members, we are going to vote on the main estimates so I can let you out five minutes early. We are in public.

If you go to page 2, you will see the votes that our committee is supposed to vote on. These are referred to our committee. I would like to have unanimous consent to call the votes on the main estimates together. Do I have unanimous consent?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

CANADA POST CORPORATION Vote 1—Payments to the Corporation for special purposes..........$22,210,000

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

CANADA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$63,416,105

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

CANADIAN INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$5,534,133

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND SAFETY BOARD Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$26,202,261

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES Vote 1—Operating expenditures..........$2,134,161,650 Vote 5—Capital expenditures..........$1,441,927,728

(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SECRETARY Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$19,705,766

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR INTEGRITY COMMISSIONER Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$4,957,842

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$129,915,146

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$72,137,719

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

SENATE Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$69,584,548

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

SHARED SERVICES CANADA Vote 1—Operating expenditures..........$1,263,902,106 Vote 5— Capital expenditures..........$379,955,130

(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)

TREASURY BOARD SECRETARIAT Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$222,912,616 Vote 5—Government Contingencies..........$750,000,000 Vote 10—Government-Wide Initiatives..........$3,193,000 Vote 20—Public Service Insurance..........$2,398,570,604 Vote 30—Paylist Requirements..........$600,000,000 Vote 25—Operating Budget Carry Forward..........$1,600,000,000 Vote 33—Capital Budget Carry Forward..........$600,000,000

(Votes 1, 5, 10, 20, 25, 30 and 33 agreed to on division)

Shall the chair report the votes on the main estimates to the House?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

I think that will be Tom's job to do.

Thank you very much. The meeting is adjourned.