Government Operations committee  The short answer to your question is that I don't have a specific envelope of funds that are targeted for greening. I have greening as an objective, and it is built into the building management planning process that I referred to in my opening remarks. Investment in our real est

Government Operations committee  To add precision to my response, I guess I understood your original question to be whether I have a specific amount of money set aside for the target. I don't have a specific amount of funds, but I do have a target. My greenhouse gas reduction target is set for 2020. I know wha

Government Operations committee  I know what my targets are for PWGSC. I know what my targeted reduction is to get to 2020. I then must balance my budget and my appropriation in order to realize the projects to achieve those targets. That is a very firm commitment that, as managers within the department, we ar

Government Operations committee  Yes, it does have the potential. As you may be aware, Public Works operates seven heating and cooling plants in the national capital area that feed, amongst other things, the houses of Parliament and 55 buildings in downtown Ottawa. We have recently completed two requests for i

Government Operations committee  Certainly the example I gave of the Jean Canfield Building in Charlottetown is a good example of innovative technologies. It uses the central atrium to move large volumes of air. It recovers heat from the exhaust of the building to then heat the building. It uses photovoltaic sol

Government Operations committee  I'll start. Thank you for the questions. In response, first of all, as one of the parts of our presentation, we attached a slide with a pie chart of ownership to demonstrate where the custodians are in the federal government. One aspect of our presentation is to indicate that

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. On behalf of my colleague, I would like to thank you for inviting us here today. We are pleased to appear before you to discuss the role of Public Works and Government Services Canada in enhanced energy efficiency and potential

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. Certainly, your observations are what I have heard in meetings in terms of the issues. For PWGSC itself, however, our funding connected with the economic action plan ended on March 31, 2011, so our program was wrapped up and has come to a

Government Operations committee  Not to my knowledge. In regard to the economic action plan, speaking as someone who works in real property, obviously, starting from zero and accelerating up in our industry is a difficult thing. I know there was an issue on start-up. We were able to succeed because we were work

Government Operations committee  I'm not familiar with that, so I couldn't speak to that.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry. That's not part of our supplementaries.

Government Operations committee  It's an excellent question. Again, in the world of real property, there are unknown factors. I can cite a dam that we did a number of years ago. We did all our boreholes and we did all our testing and preparation, but it wasn't until we completely removed all the overburden th

Government Operations committee  Yes, it is. It obviously flows with your sales and your volumes in terms of disposals.

Government Operations committee  It can, but PWGSC itself is not a large custodian of properties. We own 340 buildings, as I said earlier, but there are in excess of 50,000 in the federal inventory. There are 23 federal custodian organizations. They need to look at their holdings in terms of what is core to thei

Government Operations committee  Certainly: without question, we can provide the committee with the list of the departments and the amounts of funds that are allocated for new programs and for renewal of existing programs.