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Government Operations committee That's right.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee Not dishware, no.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee We have transferred the asset to the National Capital Commission, but you can be sure that if we do have another event we will be knocking on their door to borrow back those pieces of pottery.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee Theoretically, yes.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee No, I haven't received any calls.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee It was left plain.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee Yes, I think they looked at all kinds of options, but we also wanted to highlight some of the local artisans and their work. That's why the decision was made to use Lindgren pottery.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee Yes, you're correct. In fact, we had 29 different meetings in the lead-up to the actual summits, all held across Canada in different places to prepare for those summits. So we had a number of visitors from the different countries here throughout the year visiting Canada.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee Yes. In fact, about two to three months ago it was shipped back from the Deerhurst Resort. We transferred the asset to the National Capital Commission and they have indicated to us that they will be using those items within their official residence network.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee There are some things that inevitably become a one-use kind of situation. An example would be a table for 35 people. What we have tried to do—
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee No. For example, as my colleague from Public Works pointed out, we were able to reuse tables from 2002, in Kananaskis. We actually used that in the Deerhurst Resort for the leaders because it's the right size for ten people to sit around the table. Where possible, we keep all
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee That's right.
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee That's right. The G-20 was a first for us, so we actually purchased a second-hand table for that from the U.S. Department of the Army. They owned the table in Pittsburgh, so we purchased that, because we didn't see the ability to create something that large that would function fo
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury
Government Operations committee That is why, madam, we included a summary at the beginning for each summit. For example, as concerns expenses for media and communications, I have a total amount on two sheets here, one for fiscal 2009-2010 and another for fiscal 2010-2011, with the total amount spent on communic
November 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Sanjeev Chowdhury