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Transport committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's always a pleasure.
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee Yes, it's very concrete.
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee First of all, you are correct that the infrastructure spending, especially in the last five or six years, has grown. It was after a long period of not that much expenditure in the infrastructure, so this, as well as things like the economic action plan, gave a big bump in terms o
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee Thank you, sir, for the question. I also clarified that $1.9 million of the $8 million went to Shared Services Canada, the IT resources--
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee --and $4.1 million went to streamlining administrative functions. My notes say that $1.1 million is in miscellaneous changes. Maybe the assistant deputy minister responsible can elaborate further, if you wish.
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee You have the departmental officials, so we'll be happy to answer. In terms of Gaspé as well as Vancouver, VIA has shut down the service because of safety concerns and the state of the track. We have received requests for funding from Vancouver, but we haven't from Gaspé. The pro
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee In last year's budget the government announced that we will be doing a consultation process and a long-term planned development process for the future of infrastructure. This was three years ahead of the sunsetting of all the programs in 2014. This gives us the opportunity to wor
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee Following the reporting of the rail service review panel, the minister asked Mr. Dinning to facilitate this process. He has been meeting with the shippers as well as the railways. This is an area where there are usually different.... It's a relatively contentious area. I would sa
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee Sure. Thank you very much for the question. Let me go through them one at a time. In terms of minor cuts to road safety and to rail, there is a new organization that was created in the federal government: Shared Services Canada. Basically all of our IT, our computer activities,
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee Parts of it. I'll give you the numbers. Every group in the department that has IT activities we sent to Shared Services Canada. It got transferred. So with road safety, for example, this is the majority of the amount. Regarding rail, there was some economic action plan money the
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee On operating, it's an $8 million reduction. Close to $2 million went to Shared Services Canada with the IT resources, and $4.1 million was as a result of administrative system streamlining. Basically we're trying to do our jobs better by organizing that. In terms of capital, the
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It is such a great honour for me to be here. Mr. Lebel has already introduced our team, but I wanted to introduce Natasha Rascanin, the new Assistant Deputy Minister for the Program Operations Branch at Infrastructure Canada, and Mr. McDonald, Ms
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Transport committee Mr. Chairman, we are staying behind after the first hour and our assistant deputy minister, Helena Borges, who has the details about the land acquisition, will be able to give more detail. That being said, as you can see in the estimates, money has been brought forward and we a
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu