Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. In terms of our workplace renewal, this started several years ago. We are currently situated in 11 different locations around Ottawa. The objective is to move into two locations in the downtown core, close to Parliament, close to where we do our busine

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you for the invitation to appear before your committee. I'm delighted to speak to you today on behalf of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. I'm also pleased to be here with my colleagues from Status of Women Canada and the Privy Council Office. The g

Public Accounts committee  It is a very good question. In my remarks, I think I mentioned that this is complex stuff. One of the programs cited in the Auditor General's report is from the former Industry Canada. They talked about the computers for schools program. One of the challenges we're facing is the

Government Operations committee  The CIO of TBS proper reports to me; and, yes, over the last three years it has gotten clearer. What we're still working out is this cyber side of things because, as you know, Shared Services Canada looks after all the servers and that hardware, but the breaches can come from an

Government Operations committee  I'll start with the Canada School of Public Service. On the new funding model they're referring to in their notes here, the Canada School of Public Service used to be on a cost recovery basis, and what they found was that the change in policy was related to wanting to use it as

Government Operations committee  I think the reasons were the same as I previously mentioned. In terms of the departments, we wanted to take a lot more leadership and set up management training programs, management leadership programs, that are focused on the talent gaps in the areas that we wanted to address, a

Government Operations committee  I don't have their RPTs with me.

Government Operations committee  Let me see if I can clarify what I think you're asking. The Canada School of Public Service used to cost-recover some of its courses. It did have a base budget as well to deliver government-wide programs or training programs.

Government Operations committee  Right. It was a combination an assessment, as Brian said—this was done in close consultation with all departments—so an estimate of the funding that departments were building into their own training budgets for certain common courses that were high priority, and that funding was

Government Operations committee  No longer. That was sort of a catch-up, one-time thing, and now they're being appropriated through the estimates on a regular basis. Does that answer your question?

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me.

Government Operations committee  No, it's not. But we could follow up on that exactly and get back to you on that, because that should be very clearly mentioned in their RPP.

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, if it would be all right with you, could we start with PCO? You'll see the link in the progression of our discussion. Would that be all right?

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the invitation. Before I start, I will say that I think you'll find there are a lot of similarities. First, I just want to set levels. What departments do when they go to PCO is to get their cabinet approvals, but they often come to Treasury Board if the

Status of Women committee  If my colleague from Status of Women Canada were here, she'd tell you that we actually get together with our champions all across government. That's where we're sharing our best practices. It's really starting to help us raise awareness, share good ideas, and make it easier for d