Public Accounts committee  Some of those individuals are still employees of the commissioner's office.

Public Accounts committee  Chair, we would have expected that after three years there would have been finalized guidelines. As we mention in the report, there were drafts that were available, but we would have expected them to have been completed and then training given to staff on how to implement that to

Public Accounts committee  As I have stated previously, I believe that all the files received should be reviewed, and the investigations as well, to ensure that the conclusions were appropriate. I would suggest to the new interim commissioner that he has to ensure that the process being put in place is cre

Public Accounts committee  Chair, as we noted in the report, we looked at a selection of files that had been received by the commission and found that either the nature of the work that was done or the documentation in the file did not adequately support the conclusion or the decision to close the file. Th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We thank you for this opportunity to discuss our audit of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada. As you mentioned, I'm accompanied today by John Wiersema, Deputy Auditor General, and Linda Drainville, principal, who were responsible for this au

Public Accounts committee  We're not questioning the choice of the supplier or the type of helicopter that was chosen. We basically have two issues. One is, as we note in paragraph 6.79, Public Works officials told us they used a market analysis done by Defence, and we found that it wasn't sufficient to

Public Accounts committee  Well, not necessarily. If there had been an adequate justification showing that this supplier was really the only one that could meet all of the requirements, and if that supplier had actually been rated against all of those requirements, we would have been satisfied. But the p

Public Accounts committee  Chair, I don't think I want to get into a long debate. I'm not sure that I agree with those three statements. On the question of oversight, we reported in the report that there were committees that should have met, that should have reviewed these projects but didn't. On the que

Public Accounts committee  I believe that we are in agreement. I think that our report states that the department concluded that Boeing was the only company able to meet its needs.

Public Accounts committee  Chair, I'll ask Mr. Berthelette to respond to the question.

Public Accounts committee  I think this is actually one of the most important issues coming out of this audit. It is that a lowest-price-compliant approach is appropriate when you're buying existing equipment, the off-the-shelf type. But when you're into developmental projects, I question whether that is t

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I would just remind committee members that in the process of doing our audits and preparing our reports, we ask the departments to validate the facts. In this case, except for the disagreement on the procurement process, all departments have agreed with the facts as ou

Public Accounts committee  No. I do not want to open a big debate on notices of arbitration on contracts, but we sent a letter to the committee which contains excerpts of policies and rules regulating the awarding of contracts. You will see that all this is very clear. Based on our interpretation, ACAN mus

Public Accounts committee  There are two issues, Chair. One is the internal processes that were used within National Defence to monitor, challenge, and approve the project. There were many changes, budgets, delays, etc., that we would have expected, as outlined in the project approval guide, of which there

Public Accounts committee  Perhaps we knew about them, but we did not look at that acquisition at all.