Government Operations committee  First, there are mechanisms outside my department, including public disclosure, and everyone can use them. Second, our department has an ethics program that I feel is very serious. If memory serves, we had a great evaluation from the Treasury Board about...

Government Operations committee  I would like to talk about the period from when I started in the department until now. It has been almost five years. Those events started before that, and in addition, they are before the courts. So that makes it even more difficult to comment. Whatever the case may be, I would

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, we have conducted studies and we have hired a third party that looked over those bills and is doing additional work. Amounts were reimbursed because they did not comply with the provisions of the contract. That has all been posted on our site.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. I am going to give you a short answer with two parts. First, I am going to mention the numbers, which are very important. In any given year, we have between 55,000 and 60,000 transactions, whose total value amounts to around $17 billion. And 40% of t

Government Operations committee  We use Industry Canada's definition. You need fewer than 500 employees.

Government Operations committee  I have to say that I don't have the number of businesses with 500 employees. But I think that there are quite a few businesses that are rather small in Canada. I might be wrong. We could find that information.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. I'll gladly do so.

Government Operations committee  That's reprofiling.

Government Operations committee  That is correct.

Government Operations committee  We can.... We'll do it factually.

Public Accounts committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. I am François Guimont, the Deputy Minister of the Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada. I would also like to introduce Mr. Tom Ring, who is the Assistant Deputy Minister for Acquisitions in my department. Thank you for the opportun

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Fonberg and Mr. Chair. There are two ingredients. First is a structural set of elements, which very much mimics the approach we took for the national shipbuilding strategy. There are three levels: coordination, oversight, and consensus decision-making. The first

Public Accounts committee  The letter was addressed to Mr. Tom Ring, so I'll let him address the specifics of the content.

Public Accounts committee  We have had a number of interactions with the AG's office. That started pretty much at a level in the interaction where you're getting closer to the ultimate draft. That's the first point. On the second point, our position with respect to recommendation 2.81 was one where we fel

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. I appreciate it. I feel very comfortable with the statement made by the OAG; that is, some due diligence was exercised, but it was not sufficient. I accept that. I accept it in the sense that on a going forward basis, as explained by Madame d'Auray, t