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National Defence committee The aboriginal litigation...as you know, for both the barracks site and the Winnipeg South housing site--the decision covered both--we had hoped that we would be able to negotiate with the aboriginal groups to get agreement notwithstanding the litigation. That didn't happen. With
October 8th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
National Defence committee This has been an ongoing issue for us from the last time we were here. Let me say we recognize the frustration. We're looking at the court's decision. We will try to develop a course of action that addresses the competing interest and the legal requirement. I wish I could be mo
October 8th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, on the issue of equipment acquisition, the rhythm we follow is essentially lined up over a long period of time, based on when the equipment that's being replaced actually needs to be replaced. There is a very long lead time required for these discussions, negotiatio
October 8th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
National Defence committee That's a very complex set of questions. I have to go back to the Auditor General's report to see whether in fact she said “inadequate”. This is a very large, very complicated department. The reality is that the organization, on the financial side, is planned extremely well. It t
October 8th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. On the question of whether the air force has too much funding, that's a trick question. I'll deal with accrual accounting. As we went through the Canada First defence strategy on the modernization of all of the major fleets, I think the gener
October 8th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
National Defence committee All I can say is we have the court decision and we are reviewing it. The court will determine the next steps. The decision did say that the duty to consult had not been satisfied, so we are trying to work our way through that.
October 8th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, I will start with Mr. Pentney on the issue of section 38.
October 8th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Yes, absolutely.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Since I've been in this organization I've been struck that this is a complex business. We will never be perfect, but we will strive for perfection. Our intent is to obviously and very seriously get better on an ongoing basis. We welcome the Auditor General's report. We certainl
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee I'm not totally certainly I understand what you mean by “crisis”. The government's commitment to the department is that in addition to the funding envelope of the Canada first defence strategy, they will fund deployed operations incremental to the actual budget line that's in the
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee The interim milestones that are actually laid out in our action plan have approval of our corporate risk profile and defence priorities by February 2010, and level one business plan decisions risk-informed in March 2010, and then we move forward from there. Integrated risk manage
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee It's probably not exactly the perfect term to have used. I can't remember exactly which budget it was, budget 2006 or budget 2005, in which the government announced that it was going to seek procurement savings from the procurement process as a result of different behaviours by P
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee On the operational side, absolutely, on the human life piece.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee I'll the ask the CFO or the vice to speak to the kind of corporate over-planning targets, but it clearly is an important in-year strategic tool for us in terms of how we manage. But Vice, or CFO, Kevin, one of the two of you, would you like to speak to the over-programming alloc
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Yes, since Korea.
September 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg