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Government Operations committee The CSEC P3 project, we delivered that.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Thank you for recognizing that. Even in National Defence, for example, the fire hall at Esquimalt is also designed to be the post-disaster government operations centre that would operate to do military but also civilian response.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Absolutely. That's what we do.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee The highest value ones for the government overall are what we're helping our client partners achieve. The the energy performance contracts, for example, are the best current ones to talk about. They are performance-based contracts. The nice thing about it is that you get the repo
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Yes, we're an independent employer as well.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Shared Services is one of our client partners. We're doing the new Borden data centre as a P3. That was just announced by our minister last week. We're not supported directly by Shared Services Canada, but we do benefit from a lot of the things they do with respect to firewall
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee It was a combination of all factors. We are an independent crown corporation employer, so we have employment agreements in place with all our staff. I'll answer it three ways quickly. Attrition, that's a quick one to address. In some cases, yes, it was a result of retirements a
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee We contract with the private sector. The general contractors are subject to all the rules involved in the construction sector. We engage closely with the Canadian Construction Association as the representative association. Again, we can step in if there's a situation of abuse or
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Mélinda, can I ask you about the numbers?
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee I ran out of time to answer Mr. Weir's question fully. What I was saying in terms of our responsive model was that we are in fact growing our staff again because of the growing program. Three to four years ago, we had exceeded $1 billion, and then it came down to about $850 milli
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee One hundred and fifty, so we will be close to a thousand personnel by next year.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee CFHA is one of our key clients. Of course, it is up to CFHA, which is part of the Department of National Defence, to identify their plans and program requirements, and then to get the funding approval they require. When we come in, CFHA says, “This is what we would like you to do
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Thank you for the question. Do you mean priorities specifically around procurement, or overall as a corporation?
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Our priorities are always to continue to deliver the program that our client partners ask us to do efficiently and effectively. I've mentioned that the mix of services is always changing. DND and our other client partners will project a program, based on project approvals and fun
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul
Government Operations committee Our piece of it was that we assisted DND by building additional accommodations at three bases and wings, specifically in Quebec and Ontario. Within their plans, if they were asked to accommodate Syrian refugees, they would have housed them. The main project was at Valcartier. For
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
James Paul