Public Accounts committee  It's the executive branch--

Public Accounts committee  I'll start with the second question, and I'll let Mr. Wright handle the issue of the stairway. On the timing and why now, again, I'll speak from experience. When the report was developed by the parliamentary partners, the report referred to as the 2005 report, this was filed. At

Public Accounts committee  I find it awkward to explain how the House and the Senate function, but the acronym stands for the Senate Standing Committee on Internal Economy.

Public Accounts committee  That's in the case of the House of Commons. The BOIE is the House of Commons, and COIE is the Senate. It's the same principle. Frankly, I'm not well positioned to give suggestions on matters that should be dealt with by the legislative branches of the Senate and Parliament. I w

Public Accounts committee  I've made my point. This is not in my hands. The only point I would make, Mr. Chairman, that makes sense is that we would be looking for a meaningful point of entry into the legislative system of the Senate and the House.

Public Accounts committee  I don't at this point, frankly. I have elements, and I made references to them earlier on, about accountability; ownership; transparency; how decisions will be arrived at; whether this will be reviewed, for instance, by the OAG; who will define results. There are a number of para

Public Accounts committee  We haven't done a lot of thinking at this point. The senior ADM was appointed Friday. But in my mind, the first steps in any good analysis would look at the models, would dissect the models, would draw out what I would call common trends, elements that seem to be compatible from

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. To your three questions, I have three answers. The report will be made available to you. I made that commitment before. The second point I would make about the report, having gone through it, is that it's a mixture of what Madam Fraser has done, what I

Public Accounts committee  Which tendering process would the member be referring to, Mr. Chair?

Public Accounts committee  Okay.

Public Accounts committee  We have the resources we need, for example, the 40% for the asbestos abatement process. As Mr. Wright explained, we are preparing to put the work out to tender. It's not actually a tender process. Instead, we choose from a list of pre-qualified contractors. Once the building has

Public Accounts committee  Yes, and even more. I'm talking about appropriations required to carry out the needed work on the West Block, quite apart from the asbestos abatement and decontamination issue. As Mr. Wright explained, as is standard procedure in the case of major projects, an interest call will

Public Accounts committee  We will provide that to the committee. It's going to be descriptive in nature. We'll file that with the committee.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll simply make three points, the first one being thank you for taking the time to come again and do a tour. I think that being able to see and touch and talk to people can make a big difference in the way you look at things, and I'll gladly get s

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm very pleased to appear before you today with my counterparts from the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Department of National Defence as part of your study of the Auditor General's fall 2010 report, in particular the chapter on the acquisition of mi