Government Operations committee  Oh. I understand your question. We have a committee that I chair with the associate deputy minister. On a quarterly basis, we sit down and we review the report card. Assistant deputy ministers—and the one responsible for that measure is here today—have to report to it.

Government Operations committee  We report to ourselves in the sense that it's a report card with measures that we have established as being meaningful measures in the department, and the assistant deputy minister is responsible for reporting this data to the table.

Government Operations committee  By the way, if I may, Mr. Chair, I think this is important. This information is shared with my audit committee that I chair, with three external members.

Government Operations committee  Yes. This is where the CFO comes in handy. If I may, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  Yes, it will. The intent is twofold. Right now, it is administered throughout, so we would centralize that to the tune of about 550 people in Miramichi, which will now become the centre of expertise, and pay will be administered for the federal public service through that centre

Government Operations committee  It is. If they want, yes. As a matter of fact, Mr. Chairman, I was asking the assistant deputy minister earlier on, and out of the first wave.... We're going to do that through waves. We won't just hire 500 people. There will be three waves of about—I think the first one is abou

Government Operations committee  This is the beginning of the project.

Government Operations committee  It's going to be a seven-year project.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand the question has to do with the infill and the creation of the chamber as we move to the Centre Block, so I'll let the assistant deputy minister, Pierre-Marc Mongeau, answer the question.

Government Operations committee  This is the relocation contract, Royal LePage, and its various permutations, so I'll turn to my colleague Tom Ring, who had a hand in procuring the actual relocation package.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I will give you an answer that focuses on our infrastructures, meaning our buildings. You noted that, with the Economic Action Plan, we gave $200 million to PWGSC on two occasions. So that's $400 million that we've invested in our buildings. That was fairly unusual. I

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. These resources come out of an overall envelope of $3.6 billion over 15 years. We are part of this, but we're not the only department. There are a number of departments that have contaminated sites. A decision was made to decrease that liability, both

Government Operations committee  If I may comment, Mr. Chairman, since I'm briefed on this regularly and sometimes I do as you did. That's why the estimates adjust the mains. They're meant to be transparent to you.

Government Operations committee  So the numbers will go up and down because I have a lot of projects. That's what happens. I'm going to be given money, and then certain projects will just be over with and there will be minuses. So I'm going to get minuses and pluses.

Government Operations committee  The other thing I would say briefly, Mr. Chairman, is that my world is further compounded by the fact that we have revenue generation. This year, 57% of my budget is not fixed. As we are a service provider, it's variable as a result of demand coming from departments. So I can g