Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. My colleague Christine Walker represents the corporate side of the Treasury Board Secretariat for the real property program, and the moneys you see here are certainly significant. We work very closely with our colleagues in the government operations s

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I'd be pleased to answer the question. When the government indicated the opportunity of funding infrastructure projects, all the custodian departments, of course—because they have an inventory, they assess conditions, they identify need—were able to identify opportuni

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I'll be very precise. In fiscal year 2009-10, the department had an allocation of $235 million to spend on our owned assets.

Government Operations committee  Yes. We delivered 95% of that money for those projects.

Government Operations committee  No. My point, Mr. Chair, is that Public Works is not implicated in those programs and therefore cannot offer anything.

Government Operations committee  From Public Works' point of view, the programs inquired about are not part of our mandate. They are not anything we are associated with, so we would have no information to add about those programs.

Government Operations committee  Certainly, and thank you for the question. Through the economic action plan, the department was allocated $417 million over two years, ending this fiscal year. In the first fiscal year, we had $237 million allocated for buildings, bridges, accessibility upgrades, and le manège m

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I can tell you that most of the buildings you're looking at in the federal government inventory are part of our portfolio, because they're office buildings in this area.The standard operating procedure is that at six o'clock the ventilation shuts dow

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Chair, I will note that I am the assistant deputy minister for real property. My colleague Pierre-Marc Mongeau is the ADM for the parliamentary precinct. On this specific item, I know that our deputy minister, François Guimont, appeared before th

Government Operations committee  I don't have the specifics on those numbers. We can provide them to the committee. With respect to the consumption, it would be through our crown-owned properties, through our lease payments, through a variety of places. But we can gather the numbers.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  With respect to our initiatives, we have some pilots that have been announced by the department. They will look at smart building technologies in order to make better use of the systems. They will look at retrofitting and installing new capacities. For example, rather than having

Government Operations committee  We are also using community heating and cooling capacities. There's a large plant infrastructure in the national capital, and we are examining options on the renovation of that capacity to drive—

Government Operations committee  I can speak for our inventory. We are driving hard to reduce our costs and find efficiencies. We are working with our colleagues at NRCan, which is the centre for the federal buildings initiative. In fact, one of our pilots is situated in their buildings. It is designed to drive

Government Operations committee  As we drive the renewal of our inventory, we are targeting those specific initiatives.