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Government Operations committee  We do, and we monitor it on a regular basis.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  Well, I saw that too, and I queried it, because in the document we call the business plan.... We didn't have, granted, a heading that said “risks”; however, if you look at page 20, it very explicitly discusses the human resource challenges we face and how we are seeking to mitigate those challenges.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  —page 20 lays it all out.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  As I mentioned, we have identified within the request that was given to the department on the strategic review. We've made various presentations, but no decisions have been made. So it's not a question of our not being able to share. It's that I am not aware that the decision has been made.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  Well, if you come 36 times, some information is bound to dribble out.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  I appreciate there's a delta between our contribution and the broader deficit reduction. Fortunately, there are people above my pay grade who will make up that difference.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  Yes. Some of the large numbers that do relate to Industry Canada are there. I mean, the large chunk was the knowledge infrastructure program. That was $2 billion that used to be in our estimates and that is going away. We also had the marquee tourism program at $100 million. That was a two-year effort.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  This year is a bit different from previous years. In previous years we have been running at, I would say, a little bit less than 10%. This year we are running at about maybe 6% or 7%.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  Not necessarily. Our management group meets once a month to review where we are at with our budget. We will be making some investments in Helen's area, for example, to improve our capacity to technologically deal with licences that we provide, as well as the cash that comes in.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  There is the Space Agency, the National Research Council, the granting councils--

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  The overall operating budget of the department--what we refer to as O and M--is about $400 million.

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni

Government Operations committee  Well, we do have a policy role as it relates to many of the other agencies, departments within the Industry Canada portfolio, including StatsCan--

February 10th, 2011Committee meeting

Richard Dicerni