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Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, I'm not in a position to respond to.... I'm not sure that's a question, actually.
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee If I may, the requirements at the time included a fairly extensive fit-up. If you did not include those costs, did not include the costs of physically moving—because there were some costs to be incurred in the move, and there were some costs to be incurred in the purchase of equi
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee As the record has shown, the documentation that we have on record demonstrates clearly that part of the space request was an issue right at the outset.
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, I can only answer with regard to the documentation that we currently have, which is that our minister at the time made the request for the department to stay where it was, predicated on no fit-ups and no expansion. That is the documentation that we have on record and,
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, I cannot make that assumption because I do not have any documentation that would lead me to conclude that one way or another.
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee I will answer it regarding the specific request, which was whether there was documentation from the department to the minister to that effect. The answer is no.
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Other than what was provided--
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee There is internal correspondence about advising the employees once the decision was made to remain where we were. All the documentation we have was provided to the committee.
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee You are correct in saying that my predecessor did so, because I was not the deputy minister or the president at the time, but, yes, that would be the process. When a lease comes up, there is a discussion with Public Works. In this instance the request was initiated by Public Work
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee The process is as follows. When the lease expires, Public Works and Government Services Canada ask their client – Canada Economic Development in this case - what will be their future needs. Then, an assessment is made based on the needs analysis, which was done. However, within
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee At the start of the process, we had indicated that this issue would have to be resolved along the way but that, as far as our needs were concerned, we should still be able to maintain the original request. That being said, we had also made some projections based on retrofitting
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chairman, when the lease came up for renewal, that possibility was not considered. However, the agency has 14 regional offices spread out in the province. So, about half its staff is already decentralized. Another aspect of the decision relating to the business office of Mon
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee The lease was due to expire on March 31, 2003, if I remember correctly. In fact, that's what the documents say. That being so, a normal process would have been launched to look at our needs in order to see if we were meeting the standards of the time and if we had to move. The an
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee I will ask my colleague to tell you about the final decision. The request sent up by the Secretary of state to the minister of Public Works was intended to know if it would be possible to stay at Place Victoria. That started a process of determining if it would be appropriate fo
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray
Public Accounts committee It is always appropriate - as my colleague will explain - for Public Works and Government Services to do a cost-benefit analysis. In the present case, we did such an analysis, which is in the documents that you have received, to be able to determine if it would be acceptable for
January 31st, 2007Committee meeting
Michelle d'Auray