Public Accounts committee  I had no knowledge of their being related at all.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Koziol was the person responsible for the contracting. He was overworked and he asked for another individual to help him do the work. That's how Mr. Onischuk was brought forward.

Public Accounts committee  That was approved by our senior management. I brought it to their attention.

Public Accounts committee  It would have been the advisory committee, the pension advisory committee. I was told by our procurement people that they could not handle our work anymore--there was too much--and to go to Public Works. I went to Public Works, who told me that they could not get the work done wi

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  Here's what I was given. One of our contractors from Consulting and Audit Canada told me that Consulting and Audit Canada does this kind of work. My person approached them to see if they did that kind of work. They confirmed that they did, and they confirmed that many departments

Public Accounts committee  Our procurement people told us it was okay to use Consulting and Audit Canada.

Public Accounts committee  Anthony Koziol was hired to handle our work plan and to ensure that the contracting resourcing was in place, so that we could move forward on the project based on—

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Koziol told me that he was writing the statement of work. Those comments—preferred, preferred, preferred—were at the direct request of Mr. Brazeau, who was a contracting expert with CAC. He asked us to use those words.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Koziol told me he was going through with the contract. He wrote the statements of work. Consulting and Audit Canada asked us to tell them if there was someone there who had done the job. That someone would then be included in the procurement process, so that they wouldn't be

Public Accounts committee  I took Mr. Koziol's word that the word “preferred” was a normal—

Public Accounts committee  Sorry.

Public Accounts committee  First of all, when we were looking at hiring individuals, my manager came to me and asked that.... We were down a road in terms of data cleanup, and it hadn't been done in the timeframe we expected. We were looking at hiring CR-4s, entry-level people. I advised him to go to staff

Public Accounts committee  First, I would like to thank the committee for giving me the opportunity to speak here today. When I was recruited by the RCMP, I was given a mandate to implement a web-based, industry-outsourced pension administration for members and retirees of the force. The RCMP had been adv

Public Accounts committee  I, Dominic Crupi, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare the taking of any oath is, according to my religious belief, unlawful, and I do also solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare that the evidence I shall give on this examination shall be the truth, the