Government Operations committee  There's matching for the bulk of it. It goes from the federal government, I believe, and comes from the employer as well, and the provinces play a role in this as well. I think it goes…and I don't want to speculate. Do you actually know how this goes?

Government Operations committee  I think we do have agreements in principle, or MOUs, with all provinces and territories, so we're on the right track.

Government Operations committee  It is, but the government retained those facilities and the related liability. There were some liabilities that went with SNC-Lavalin. They were related to liabilities attached to current projects that were ongoing and either were behind schedule or had some challenges. SNC-Laval

Government Operations committee  In this case, the outlay from the government went to the Government of Quebec. It was the federal share. I believe it's the Province of Quebec that is going after the company itself, but I'm not positive of that. This liability is not a federal government contaminated site liabil

Government Operations committee  It is funded as a loan to allow them to participate in negotiations. I believe there is a vehicle such that under certain circumstances the loan can be forgiven, but that's kind of down the road. The normal course of action is that it's a repayable loan, regardless of the outcome

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. We are not at this stage contemplating name changes to the estimates documents, but that being said, if there are suggestions from the committee—and we have taken on board many of the suggestions from this committee in the past on how to improve—pleas

Government Operations committee  The AECL annual operating budget that you would see in the main estimates is not sufficient to fund their annual cost, which is why we often see them in supplementary estimates. They are in the process of setting up what's called a GOCO, which is a government-owned corporation op

Government Operations committee  They're setting it up. There are procurement plans. It will have to go out to tender. The actual payments to that organization, the eventual winner, will be based on performance. Basically, the procurement process is ongoing. The request for proposal is out. Bids are due back in

Government Operations committee  That one we could do.

Government Operations committee  I believe Macdonald House was sold just before the end of the fiscal year. What's happening now is renovations related to the two properties, but I believe they're actually functioning now. I'm looking to Marcia to see if she knows.

Government Operations committee  My understanding, Mr. Chair, is that this amount is for those three items. It's $133.6 million, and it relates to the renovations of the High Commission and residence and the leasehold extension. That's what this funding is for, those items. I don't actually have the split betwee

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. You're quite right, those two mines were operated profitably for a number of years. What's changed from a corporate culture perspective? Let's be honest, environmental liabilities were not of concern, if you go back far enough. Certainly, it's more o

Government Operations committee  Yes, and basically the government has environmental liabilities related to things that the government actually didn't cause, and we're often left holding the bag. We have identified 16,300 sites as possible liabilities. You've mentioned two of them. I believe that every effort wa

Government Operations committee  The division that was bought or sold to SNC-Lavalin was indeed the nuclear reactor division, the CANDU reactor.

Government Operations committee  Maybe my colleagues can add as we go, because there were four rounds of strategic reviews. The first round generated about $604 million; the second round about $400 million; the third round about $1.6 billion; and the fourth round about $290 million. So if someone can do some qui