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Public Accounts committee In the case of North Bay, I would like to be able to satisfy the member, Mr. Chairman, but he, I think, has pretty much stated the reality. Those blueprints were not classified. In retrospect, if we had to do it again, we would probably be a little bit more deliberate, certainl
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Well, whenever blueprints are classified, the available number of contractors is smaller by a significant margin because of the required security clearances. I don't know, I'd have to go back to those who were there at the time to understand exactly why. I don't know that that wa
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee With the advantage of hindsight, Mr. Chairman, I think the bottom line is this: I think the Auditor General reported that if we had that decision to take again, we would have done a security requirements checklist on that project and those blueprints likely would have been classi
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chairman, we submitted a revised action plan to you and the committee last Wednesday or Thursday; I'm not actually sure of the date. At that time we identified that we expected this MOU and the framework to be signed by July 31, 2008. As we went through our work last week, we
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chairman, let me just repeat that there was no breach of government security policy or national security policy in the handling of these documents. The project itself went through a security requirements checklist. It was not deemed necessary to classify the actual blueprints
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee First of all, we have tabled an action plan. I believe we have a revised action plan to actually table. The action plan itself is based on all the recommendations the Auditor General herself put forward in her report. Basically, there are four points to that action plan. Just b
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Do we know...?
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee No, we do not know how they ended up there.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee No, we were not informed that the blueprints had disappeared, Mr. Chairman.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Yes, absolutely.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee There was no flaw in the process. The process required us to look at whether or not those blueprints should have been classified. A determination was made that they did not have to be classified, the contractors would not require access to classified information, or access to cla
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Is there some way of avoiding this in place? I'd have to look at my departmental security officer. I do not believe we have moved to change the provisions that are there. We are awaiting Treasury Board guidance in the rewriting of the government security policy around the issue o
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee I think shortly after the discovery of the Trenton blueprints somebody managed to find some blueprints for another government department's buildings, which were also unclassified, in a similar situation. So could it recur for unclassified documents? Unless we have put certain pro
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee The Trenton project and the development of the blueprints went through the appropriate kind of security requirements checklist. Those blueprints were deemed to be unclassified. Treasury Board, under the government security policy, now recognizes that there are no document-handlin
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to speak with you today. First, I would like to apologize to the committee for any misunderstanding that the testimony given by representatives of the Department of National Defence in February may have cause
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
Robert Fonberg