Public Accounts committee  Yes, sir.

Public Accounts committee  I am—

Public Accounts committee  Sir, first of all—

Public Accounts committee  I am responsible for it, even though it was my predecessor. I wasn't here at the time. I take that responsibility seriously. I'm the deputy now, and it is my responsibility and it's my accountability. If you would like an explanation on any matter of where we are now versus wher

Public Accounts committee  I would be happy to provide that back to the committee on every item we had in the 2012 plan—

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Functional authority usually means that one of your senior leadership is responsible for an area but doesn't necessarily have direct accountability for it. Pat, for example, would be a functional authority about inventory materiel management, but at the sam

Public Accounts committee  I think it gets back to my earlier comment that inventory originally was very disaggregated, decentralized, in the department, so base commanders who will play a role in that inventory. We have parts in warehouses across the country and around the world. All of those people are b

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. We have one item in the action plan that has been pushed out to 2026-27, and it is a long time frame. That is the automation technologies. That's the bar coding, the radio technology chips. It requires changes to our IT systems. It's going to require

Public Accounts committee  Okay. I'll ask Mr. Finn to provide some more detail on each of the elements, and where we're at.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have prepared some remarks, which I think the committee has, but I know you'd like to leave as much time as possible for questions, so perhaps I could leave them with the committee members to read through and I'll make a few brief opening remarks. First,

National Defence committee  Last year the previous government made a decision to transfer not search and rescue but the secretariat to Public Safety. It's a small team of about 20 to 25 people that was in National Defence. It was felt it was better placed to work within Public Safety, because they're workin

National Defence committee  Yes, sure. There is a program called the Canadian safety and security program, and it funds research, technology, and development. Our research organization, DRDC, manages that program on behalf of all the departments. We hold the money. Departments generate proposals to do rese

National Defence committee  Quickly, with respect to the transfer in the supplementary estimates for Fisheries and Oceans, it's actually the money. We are transferring property from the Fisheries and Oceans department to ND. It's about 43 hectares, which will be part of that Nanisivik port. So that's the mo

National Defence committee  Not at this point.

National Defence committee  The budget for the program to provide equipment is a part of Operation IMPACT, but for next year. Consequently, no amount has been set aside for the fiscal year 2015-2016.