Government Operations committee  Absolutely. Thank you very much for the question. The projects, as you noted, are all proceeding on time and on schedule. By 2018 a suite of five major projects will be completed, which will enable the Centre Block to be completely emptied, and for its restoration to begin. La

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. We work very closely with the new Parliamentary Protective Service, which was put in place last summer. I would note that prior to its creation, we worked very closely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as well as the security services of the Senate and the Hous

Government Operations committee  The visitor welcome centre, phase 1, will be located in-between the West Block and the Centre Block. You may note a large excavation in that area right now. That excavation is specifically for phase 1 of the visitor welcome centre. You will enter essentially from the east into th

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My thanks also to all committee members. My name is Rob Wright and I am the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for the Parliamentary Precinct Branch within Public Services and Procurement Canada. I am here to speak to you today about our work in the Pa

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. We did. Yes.

Government Operations committee  I will ask Nathalie Laliberté to respond to that question.

Government Operations committee  To date, we have used the set-aside program for aboriginal business to ensure there's participation from indigenous businesses in the work we do. Going forward, I wouldn't say we have all the answers yet. We really want to develop an approach that creates meaningful results. It's

Government Operations committee  I think you've put your finger on the issue. A lot of the opportunities are in the subcontracting area and making sure of those opportunities for partnerships and joint ventures and being a part of the supply chain, so that it's not reliant only on the direct contractual arrange

Government Operations committee  Maybe I'll ask my colleague, Matthew Sreter, to respond to that.

Government Operations committee  In a minute, I'll ask Matthew Sreter to give some of the details.

Government Operations committee  There's a set process that happens the same way every single time—

Government Operations committee  I wouldn't say that we've done a lot of benchmarking with the private sector for the work that we are doing. I would say we compare favourably within the federal government.

Government Operations committee  No, it's not.

Government Operations committee  No, we're not responsible for that.

Government Operations committee  I will say that on the work that's within the parliamentary precinct there's a very robust oversight regime.