Evidence of meeting #62 for Public Accounts in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was contract.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
Mrs. Casey, you indicated that you had a fairly large contract that ended in January 2007. Why did it end in 2007?
As an Individual
At that point in time, Assistant Commissioner Mole advised me that they weren't sure what route they were going to take for renewing the contract for pension outsourcing, whether they were going to look at going out again for private industry or if they were going to look at alternate solutions for pension outsourcing. The work I was working on would directly feed into the renewal of that outsourcing. So because they didn't know the direction, I was terminated.
Liberal
As an Individual
That work was all still there. We were redoing processes. We were analyzing all of the current processes. We were documenting a lot of areas that hadn't been documented, because if you were going to go to an alternate solution, you had to provide all of this information to anybody so that they would know what it is they would be asked to bid on.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
Mr. Brazeau, was part of your job with CAC to go out and recruit contractors to bid on various projects?
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
So part of your job description would be to reach out to contractors you thought had the abilities to carry out various work?
As an Individual
There was nothing on my job description that mentioned contracting.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
But in assessments with Mr. Koziol, that's what you were doing, was it not?
Liberal
Liberal
As an Individual
We used to meet at least, I'd say, 10 or 12 contractors a week who would come to our office.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
They would come to your office. What about your being the one reaching out to them?
Mr. Koziol mentioned that you'd had lunch, and you were telling him about CAC and how you could get around some of the questions.
As an Individual
No, that's not correct. What Mr. Koziol said is how this all started is that we had another CAC person working at NCPC, and that person told Mr. Koziol that the CAC does contracting services also. That's how I got to meet Mr. Koziol.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
Did you ever get taken out to dinner? Did you receive golf tickets or other benefits as a result of the work you were doing with various contractors?
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
How did you get to be preferred? Abotech and others appeared to become preferred contractors very quickly, even though they didn't have the skills needed to carry out the work.
As an Individual
The word “preferred” means that the client was allowed to invite their contractor of choice for a NAFTA project, under NAFTA.
As an Individual
That means for any contract that was not posted on MERX, the client was allowed to invite the preferred client.
