Government Operations committee  On how many cars, I don't know offhand the number of vehicles, but certainly one part of our efforts is to move to electric vehicles. We can find out for you.

Government Operations committee  Okay.

Government Operations committee  One of our initiatives in our net-zero carbon strategy is to also look at the leasing portfolio. We own about half our office portfolio. It's seven and a half million square metres. The other half is leased from the market. We're having three sessions this month with the landlor

Government Operations committee  With the district energy system that I spoke to in our opening remarks, as we modernize the current heating plant infrastructure and all of the tunnels that switch from providing steam heat to Parliament Hill and about 82 different along Wellington..... Part of the contract for t

Government Operations committee  There's an RFP on the street right now to modernize the five heating plants, to get about a 70% reduction overall in GHG emissions and to convert some of those heating plants that are 60- or 70 year-old infrastructure into modern infrastructure going forward.

Government Operations committee  What evidence do we have? We're at a point now where we absolutely have to modernize it. We'd be glad to take you on a tour of some of the facilities, the Cliff Street Heating Plant, etc. The evidence is more that the private sector has a lot of experience in Toronto, and other

Government Operations committee  Thank you both. Back in mid-2015 or the fall of 2015 when I moved into this role, we didn't have a lot of data and evidence around all of our facilities. We received some program integrity funding in budget 2016 that allowed us to actually study our facilities and do things that

Government Operations committee  I'll answer this way—

Government Operations committee  Do I have just a couple of seconds, or no?

Government Operations committee  In each portfolio plan there are categories of elements that will reduce GHG in and around infrastructure. I'd be happy to share those, if we have the time.

Government Operations committee  Sure. Besides telling us what to do from a GGO perspective, Nick's team is bringing us together. If we're doing things like district energy as an example here in Ottawa, we can share that experience with National Defence and the heating plants that they need to start refurbishing

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the opportunity to appear and speak about the greening government strategy. I am happy to share with you the important work we are undertaking at Public Services and Procurement Canada, or PSPC, to green government operations and ensure a more environment

Environment committee  Thanks.

Environment committee  There are two aspects to your question. When we procure, say, leased space, we are currently working with industry on adapting our clauses, such that they will be more favourable or give preference to greener facilities, that's for sure. An interesting point is that the clients w

Environment committee  I was just going to add to that if it's helpful. I would say that there's a large component of the $10 billion that was mentioned by my colleague from the Treasury Board, that goes into the running costs associated with the building, like paying the utilities, paying the rent, p