Government Operations committee  The initial money was $1.2 million to plan out, design, and scope how the south jetty will be constructed.

Government Operations committee  From a procurement perspective, we will work very closely with our colleagues in acquisitions and procurement. We will look at that as it moves forward from conception through preplanning and planning to execution.

Government Operations committee  In 2014, we worked with the Treasury Board to establish what we call price and volume protection. A component of the monies that we asked for in the supplementary estimates (C) was around price and volume protection in the non-discretionary component of our overall portfolio. W

Government Operations committee  Sure. I can get into that in some detail if you wish.

Government Operations committee  I'll go quickly. We have roughly two billion dollars' worth of expenses in the area of utilities. We are asking for an $18-million increase, which is less than 1%. As we forecast at the beginning of the year what the market rates will be, utility rates, etc., we come less than

Government Operations committee  With respect to the remediation of the Esquimalt graving dock, there are actually two components where it was mentioned. The first component was the remediation work through the contaminated sites action plan, where we completely redid the south jetty, worked into the harbour,

Government Operations committee  However, it was mainly in and around the following projects, which I will go over for you. The first was the service entrance in the pumphouse substation, which was $14.6 million. Another component was for a main substation replacement. There was also the north landing wharf su

Government Operations committee  How far along did we get under my tenure? We focused on incident management and supporting problem management in that space. If I could get away from the traditional cost per terabyte, etc., and a pricing strategy—and I'm going to leverage where I am now, and as the committee k

Government Operations committee  Sure. I think the question was around a senior level of support. Part of what Chris is talking about is an integrated planning regime among communities. I was going to get to the issue of trust. The way SSC was formed, it was difficult for us from a trust perspective. You can i

Government Operations committee  Is the question for me? Actions speak louder than words. I won't be as frank as Chris, but there's a lot of talk about support for Shared Services Canada. From my perspective, if there was a lot of support in some of the management accountability frameworks over the last five y

Government Operations committee  Okay. I'm just trying to answer your question. I've been with the Clerk of the Privy Council and I've heard him say we support Shared Services Canada and that enterprise approach. So people are saying they do. What's important is that central agencies provide the support to bri

Government Operations committee  Thank you.

Government Operations committee  Thanks for the question. From a “keep the lights on” perspective, we immediately focused on the 1,572—I believe that was the number at the time—mission critical systems that had been identified by people like Chris and the CIO community and the programs they supported. Every we

Government Operations committee  I wouldn't put it as procurement impeding us. I could tell at P3, looking at salary. That was really easy to predict. Looking at the systems we supported and the capital program that would be necessary to do replacements, I could predict with some accuracy after year one, which w

Government Operations committee  I didn't mean to...when I referred to legacy, right? It just was the existing stuff; that's just a term. We can't forget that in 2010 there was an Auditor General's report that looked at five major systems. If you look at those recommendations, you'll see they didn't say the leg