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National Defence committee I think a partial answer, Mr. Chairman, is that it is a standard management technique to set objectives that you then prod your people to try to meet. Certainly, my colleagues and I at this table use these objectives in order to poke and prod away at our colleagues in the departm
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, as the government did announce in the recent Speech from the Throne, consideration has been given to developing a revised Canada First defence strategy. The department has pulled together some recommendations to the government. Again, Mr. Chairman, in long-standing
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee I'm sorry.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Thank you. I think in order to understand why we haven't met our target, it's important to understand that DND is one of a significant number of other players that operate on the procurement side. We work with Public Works. Industry Canada has a role. Treasury Board often has a
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, could I ask Mr. Lindsey to answer?
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee By way of a bit of background, Mr. Chair, you'll be aware that it was decided some time ago that the non-secure, beneath the top secret level communications capacity of the Government of Canada, will be centralized in Shared Services Canada. We have an ongoing program, beyond wha
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Can Mr. Pitfield answer, Mr. Chairman?
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Admiral Finn.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Fundamentally, I don't think so, Mr. Chairman. What we're trying to do, and as I think Admiral Norman said, is that we are using the assets that we have now and we're prioritizing their tasking. The frigates are coming off-line now, as the minister intimated earlier. We now have
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, I wonder if I could ask Mr. Pitfield to answer. He's the assistant deputy minister responsible for this area.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Let me start, Mr. Chairman. You're quite right that the Canadian Armed Forces is one of the largest holders of infrastructure in the country. Quite honestly, we could probably allocate more money on an ongoing basis to this function. There are limited capabilities and there's a l
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, I understand the House and its committees have a long-standing tradition whereby officials aren't asked to contradict their ministers.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee I think if the chief operating officer of any institution, including I bet the chair, were given the opportunity to acquire more money, be it for travel, research. or whatever, he or she would be delighted. Could we use more? We absolutely could, but with the adjustments that w
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee —Arctic patrol ships. When the government made the initial announcement they said they would try to obtain up to a certain amount. In order to provide for increased costs and whatnot, our current planning, in working with our industry counterparts, is to get as many of these vess
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden
National Defence committee Mr. Chairman, forgive me for correcting you, but I don't think you're referring to the frigates. The frigates are the modernization program. You were probably referring to the—
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Fadden