Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. That's one of our.... Is that for Jean-Rock?

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I spoke about the rehabilitation of buildings. We have a lot of examples right here in Ottawa, including the Lester B. Pearson building, Place du Portage and within the parliamentary precinct, which we're renovating. These are all taking into account the GHG reduction

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I think Public Services and Procurement Canada is a leader in recapitalization projects. I'll say this couple of words in English: the shadow price of carbon. When the industry was calculating the price of carbon at $50 per tonne, we started calcul

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, as I said earlier, we look at each project on its own merits. The Canada Revenue Agency building in Shawinigan is a pilot project whose goal is to significantly reduce the amount of carbon used in cement. We are reviewing all projects that are, or will be, under way

Natural Resources committee  We don't have statistics industry-wide on how there's been an increase in mass timber buildings being built. I don't know if my colleague from NRCan would have these statistics.

Natural Resources committee  Go ahead. I have an example I could use, definitely, also. Go ahead and I'll complete the answer after you.

Natural Resources committee  I could add to that as an example, Le Manège militaire Voltigeurs de Québec. This is one of the projects. We look at all of our projects and when mass timber is what resonates as being the best solution, that's what we use. The Voltigeurs is all constructed from wood, mass timber

Natural Resources committee  On the flexible approach, as I said, we are looking at each project on its own merit and, with our expertise and also hired expertise, we are looking at what the best solution is for each project. As an example, since the Canadian building code 2020 has been changed to allow for

Natural Resources committee  I would turn to my colleague Jean-Rock, who is the expert in the domain of calculating GHG emissions.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I would say that PSPC, as a department and as an expert in real property, requires a review of each project. Each project is looked at based on the benefits of which materials should be used in its construction. It's not a decision that is taken acro

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. Mr. Chair, I am pleased to be appearing before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources in my capacity as assistant deputy minister of real property services at Public Services and Procurement Canada, or PSPC, to discuss the ro

Information & Ethics committee  I would like to make a correction. We are renting the hotel at the request of the people from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, for them to use. They are the ones who manage the number of people who arrive, not us. For our part, we have to make sure that the properti

Information & Ethics committee  I can confirm that approval of these contracts was up to the public servants because of that threshold, and so they were the ones who made the decisions and leased this land and these buildings, based on the needs and requests of our clients, IRCC and the CBSA.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I can confirm it is below the authority. It is an authority, in this case, that can be done by civil servants, not by political staff or the minister.

Information & Ethics committee  That is exactly it. The clients define their needs and we make sure that the solution we find is suitable for them. I'll say it in English. There's value for money for Canadians in what we're putting into place.