Transport committee  It would, if it's defined up front. In the platform that you're giving them, if their response to that platform in any way, shape, or form is going to be considered in the selection of the successful bidder, then Treasury Board requirements, indeed contract law in Canada, require

Transport committee  To be honest, it would be better to ask a procurement expert, probably somebody from PSPC who would have to be doing this. I know that one of the things they are consistently concerned about is being able to compare apples to apples and not apples to oranges in those circumstance

Transport committee  Maybe I can answer it this way. Depending on what project delivery method PSPC has decided is best suited to the procurement of the asset or infrastructure they are looking at, that would then give you the opportunity to see to what extent the community benefit aspect of that cou

Transport committee  Any time a government says that you have to pre-qualify to bid a project, very often that will be part of the submission to meet the pre-qualification. They'll include that. They'll include for example how many of their people are certified in green technologies, among other thin

Transport committee  Well, first of all, I suppose we're now not talking about C-227, because you mentioned the building Canada plan. It doesn't apply to that. But if I were to speculate, if it were to apply to the building Canada plan, the decision as to which delivery method to use would be up to t

Transport committee  I would agree it would be Parliament because it's taxpayers' dollars. In particular, if funds are being diverted away from the actual asset itself for some other purpose, I think it's doubly important that taxpayers hear that it was successful and did have a return on investment.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wish to first of all thank the committee members for providing the Canadian Construction Association with the opportunity to appear before you in connection with your annual pre-budget consultations. The Canadian Construction Association, CCA, represents

Finance committee  Sure. I'll give you a comparison of where we are with respect to the U.S. Under the current system in the United States, which is more of a direct depreciation, a typical piece of equipment is written off within six years. Under the current system in Canada it takes 11 years, and

Finance committee  It's absolutely key in our industry. We need the workers to go where the work is. We'd love to be able to move a northern mining project in British Columbia to downtown Vancouver but it just doesn't work that way, so we need a mobile workforce.

Finance committee  The particular suggested change to EI would be with respect to people who are currently on EI, so it would be to look for a job. In some cases, although not all cases, as you probably well know, once somebody is employed, often the employer will pick up the relocation costs. But

Finance committee  No. We're talking about a situation where they know there is work in the construction industry in a neighbouring province or in a northern region of their province, but to go to look for work in that area and be interviewed, etc., there's a cost to that, and it is a barrier.

Finance committee  Sometimes that can be used, but if you're looking for a tradesperson, often you want to see a demonstration of their craft ability.

Finance committee  Well, that's Canada, right? We have a provincial level of government. In many cases, municipalities are nothing but a creature of statute, so they don't have any legal status. It's difficult for the federal government to do an end run in those circumstances. Quite frankly, the m

Finance committee  Well, yes. StatsCan's current data says 60.4% of the firms active in the industry are micro with fewer than five employees; 99% of small businesses have fewer than 100. I want to talk about passive income, which is coming under a bit of an attack by Finance Canada. The suggesti

Finance committee  You can't do any federal government work of any meaningful size without it.