Public Accounts committee  No, I'm just saying that it could, in that eventuality, actually result in further modifications and further costs.

Public Accounts committee  Not as far as I know.

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

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

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

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.

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

Public Accounts committee  I think that's fair to say.

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

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

Public Accounts committee  If you are asking us--

Public Accounts committee  --to simply apply common sense on 20,000 projects, I suspect we would find ourselves in some extraordinarily awkward situations.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly, to the extent that there's nothing classified. But the review will certainly be shareable.

Public Accounts committee  It was probably within a week of the blueprints actually being discovered, but I don't remember the date.

Public Accounts committee  When did it start?