Public Accounts committee  Yes, I can give you more information. As of now, we have concluded contracts with Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Nova Scotia. We have a strategy to ensure that we use Canadian companies and that the materials come from Canada, of course. That is not pos

Public Accounts committee  Thanks very much for the question. Lessons learned are really at the core of the methodology that we undertake within the precinct and the broader department. We have a searchable database for lessons learned that all project managers have to use. Certainly, many were pulled fro

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would have a schedule and cost impact. There's no question about that. For all of these precursor projects—the archeological work, the removal of underground services and the construction road—the devil would be in the details of how much we'd be able to do given that type of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  May I pass that over to Ms. Garrett?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The plan is to have significantly more green space on the Hill, not less. We're moving towards more green rather than away from it. That really is the plan. One thing that's critically important is that we're really trying to move to a campus approach to the way the precinct wor

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The implementation of the long-term vision and plan has been quite an integrated and fairly holistic plan, but it has not addressed things like parking to the same degree as it has addressed buildings or material handling. All of that back-of-house infrastructure that integrates

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is part of the long-term vision and plan. There is no approved project at this point to implement that. However, that has always been part of the long-term vision and plan, to move away progressively from surface parking to an underground type of facility that is not designe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right. We're well aware of the parking requirements and other requirements of ensuring that Parliament is able to operate. Again, we work hand in hand with the officials to ensure that the operations of Parliament are supported and that we're able to restore appropriately and m

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, it's not designed at this point. The point is that we're trying to move towards more green space on the Hill, not away from it. We do, unfortunately, run into these in-between moments when we're doing a major project that has an impact. I understand that the duration of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it's not a project that is approved at this point with a specific budget.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We could always extend what is envisioned in the front of Parliament. You're right about that. It is the symmetry that would be affected. From all the evidence we have, it would be changing a major component of the plan—which is your prerogative. All the evidence we would have is

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The trees will be over the top of the site, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a number of points and questions there. I'll maybe start with the last one and then pass off to Ms. MacDonald. You're quite right. A lot of the analysis was about whether this tree was a viable candidate for relocation and replanting, but we did look at what would be r

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, this committee has been having conversations, I know, with the administration of the House. There's a lot of good work that's going on to help ensure that parliamentarians are more engaged in the work, which I think is essential. To walk this through in maybe a simplified

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Parliament sets the requirements and we then work hand in hand with parliamentary officials to develop the plans and designs. We then work hand in hand again with parliamentary officials to ensure that those requirements are being developed—