Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. As I indicated in my opening remarks, 100% of the IT operating and salary budgets for PCO's e-mail, data centres, and networks used in the processing and storage of up to secret level information—not including top secret, but up to secret level info

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. The government is eliminating the Public Appointments Commission Secretariat, as it has significantly strengthened the rigour and accessibility of the public appointments system over the past five years. Improvements put in place to strengthen the pu

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. The Chief Electoral Officer, while part of the PCO portfolio, has their own chief financial officer, and that is not me, so I'm not able to respond to your question. The chief financial officer for the elections agency would be able to do so.

Government Operations committee  I must tell you that my answer to your question is the same as my answer to the last question. The transportation safety board has its own chief financial officer, who I'm sure would be delighted to respond to your questions. I can't do that.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. I am pleased to meet with the members of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. As you explained, I'm accompanied today by Mr. Bill Pentney and Monsieur Marc Bélisle. Without further ado, I will begin to e

Government Operations committee  My assumption is that the RPP will be structured to support whatever decisions are announced broadly in the budget. I have no further information or guidance on the level of specificity or granularity at this time, although I certainly understand why you're asking the question.

Government Operations committee  I'm saying I can't imagine having an RPP—if the RPP comes after the budget, and the budget is now scheduled to be tabled on March 29—that would be broadly disconnected.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for that question. I would be happy to speak to size for the past three years. I didn't quite go back to five years, but I have three-year figures with me. I'm going to start as of April 1, 2010. I'd like to frame my answer in the same way Marc talked about how our fu

Government Operations committee  Certainly we have been implementing our strategic review and making a link to the excellent question about morale in the workplace. We've tried to do that by way of attrition wherever possible, because that is certainly the least painful form of workforce reduction. Then there's

Government Operations committee  I would be delighted to do that since six weeks ago I had to do the same thing for my children. The Privy Council Office has three main functions. The first is to be the Prime Minister's department. All ministers in government have a department. The Prime Minister is no excepti

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, we are like every other department, and we have participated in the strategic and operating review.

Government Operations committee  I would clarify that we, like everybody else in government, are awaiting the government's decision on the strategic and operating review, so I don't know what those decisions are. With respect to the strategic review, and we're just finishing year one of that, I would say—this

Government Operations committee  We are completing year one of the strategic review exercise, and about to start in year two. That has brought a very real focus to how we conduct ourselves financially.

Government Operations committee  So that looks at all areas of our spending. It was a comprehensive view of the department's spending just like that of all the other government departments. It was from internal services, such as the kind my branch provides to the activities required to support the cabinet system

Government Operations committee  In addition to what Mr. Wild has said, my branch provides a couple of types of services. First of all, we have a coordinator who sits to make sure that there is a cohesion to the activities and to the overall stewardship and comptrollership practices of the commission. Mark's peo