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Public Accounts committee That's a question I can't answer. I don't know the reason that deputy ministers in some departments change often. My concern, as I've said before, is that we often see deputies changing in key departments like procurement and national defence. In some of those very large departme
October 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, thank you for this opportunity to discuss our audit of the consolidated financial statements of the Government of Canada for the 2017-18 fiscal year. With me is Karen Hogan, the principal responsible for that audit. I'm also accompanied today by Renée Pichard, the pr
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee Yes. The issue we're raising there.... Again, just by way of trying to help parliamentarians understand some of those documents, if you look at the budget, it says there's an amount of $330-something billion that would be budgeted to be spent. If you look at the main estimates t
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee In general, I would say that there are a lot of very capable people in the federal civil service, people who are very capable of managing projects and keeping projects in line. IT projects are particularly difficult, of course. I think one of the big failures in Phoenix was th
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee I can't speak to what any of these particular projects have put in place. We haven't gone to do an audit on them to sort that out. Certainly I think those are the right questions for each of the departments that are responsible for these types of large projects: How are they maki
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee Again I have to say that we haven't looked at any of these systems individually, so I can't tell you what stage they are at, or with what types of issues they are struggling. One of the things we identified in Phoenix, though, was that all of the information about how that projec
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee First, in terms of the item that you talked about on page 132, I'll just give you a brief introduction to that and then perhaps Mr. Huppé will provide you with more details. Essentially this is the write-off of loans. When the government issues a loan, it sets that loan up as an
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee It's about whom they give access to and what type of access they give to those people.
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee That's right. You're right that we're not talking so much about hacking, although if there aren't good access controls, that could facilitate hacking as well. Primarily, we're looking at this: Only the people who need access should have access, and they should have access only to
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee I haven't really looked into the details of how it's going to show up in the public accounts. However, certainly—as I understand with vote 40—the departments have to go through the process to request that they get an allocation, so at some point there should be an accounting of,
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee As I'm listening to the conversation, I'm thinking of it more from the point of view of us being one of the departments in vote 40. We have had to go through the process to access money through vote 40. We will get an allocation, and in fact we have received our allocation now, b
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee I don't know the exact amount, but that sounds about right.
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee I guess you could say that if the government had spent any additional amount without getting any additional revenue it would go right onto the bottom line.
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee That's not information I would have.
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson
Public Accounts committee I think they have done a very good job on that analysis. Yes, the amount they've come up with is a sound amount for valuing the obligations for pension promises in the unfunded portion of the pension plan. Yes, I think it's a very good change.
October 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Michael Ferguson