Public Accounts committee I remember all of it, yes.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee No, they didn't come to the committee, but they certainly would have been working with NCPC at the time.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee No, not--
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee That's not accurate, sir. NCPC, as a responsibility centre and responsible for pension administration, had the authority to do this work. In fact, it was their responsibility to do this work. It was this proposal to outsource the pension fund. The pension administration, did it come to the executive committee?
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee It was to administer insurance, and we--
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee Without any other option, yes.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee No. I was talking about the pension. On the pension, as I mentioned to Ms. Sgro, we now are even in that account. Any charges that were made there have either been reimbursed or reversed.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee Some of the money came from appropriations, some from Public Works.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee Yes. I went for a day and it was an excellent course. It was so good that I have asked every one of my employees to take that course. As new people come into our branch they immediately go into the ethics course.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee The administration costs for the insurance fund are now under review by HR with the Treasury Board Secretariat. They are looking at a number of options--whether we should take the public service plan or keep the present plan. There has to be discussion with the members. Then a number of options will be proposed.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee I'm glad you asked the question, because the auditor's report said that a certain amount had been charged to the pension fund and should not have been charged. I can announce today that everything that was charged to the pension fund that should not have been charged has now been cleared out.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that when we got an invoice for $570,000, we didn't have any place to charge it, so we immediately investigated it--
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin
Public Accounts committee We will send that in, sir.
May 14th, 2007Committee meeting
D/Commr Paul Gauvin