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Public Accounts committee I do just very briefly, Mr. Chairman. There is a common-sense element to this, but the simple reality is that in a department that deals with 20,000 contracts or something per year, you need more than common sense. You actually do need policies, and you do need procedures. I wo
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee If you are asking us--
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee --to simply apply common sense on 20,000 projects, I suspect we would find ourselves in some extraordinarily awkward situations.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Certainly, to the extent that there's nothing classified. But the review will certainly be shareable.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee It was probably within a week of the blueprints actually being discovered, but I don't remember the date.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee When did it start?
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee It is correct that they would have to have a reliability status or they would have to have something beyond a reliability status, an actual security clearance. The lowest level of classification for contractors is reliability status, essentially a police investigation and crimina
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee I think that's fair to say.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee I was at Cold Lake last week in northern Alberta, and they can't get contractors to work on unclassified projects up there because the market is so tight. We know that labour markets right around the country are very tight, so even before you get into the classified business, the
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chairman, if I may say so, the priority of that investigation of the 8,500 is really not so much to determine what should have been classified differently but to determine where there could be an exposure because they were not classified differently. So it would be to determi
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee The member has raised a number of issues, Mr. Chairman. First of all, in terms of the issue of a breach of security or handling of classified information, the purpose of our review of the 8,500 contracts that were let is to ensure, ourselves, that in fact there were no breaches.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee No. In fact, I'm not sure who would actually have the laydown on that. We actually did go back and do a thorough review of everybody in this contracting and subcontracting process who may have had access to those blueprints. As I understand it, we actually did make a number of ca
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee There are two different issues, Mr. Chairman. I think we are already in the process of looking internally. We will probably set a threshold that is beyond the government security policy for the actual classification of our buildings. We will strengthen the assessment of threats a
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee I would like to turn to my acting assistant deputy minister, Scott Stevenson, or Mr. Nicholls. My gut feeling is that the vast majority do not require security. Remember, many of these are building sidewalks, building married quarters, building barracks. But I would defer to my c
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Based overall? I would turn to either Scott or Mr. Nicholls.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg