Government Operations committee  As I said, the beyond the border action plan was announced in late December 2011 by the then prime minister and the then president of the United States, and I suspect the member is fairly acquainted with it. The role of PCO since that time has been to, as I said, coordinate the e

Government Operations committee  Thank you for that question. I apologize for any confusion. I was attempting to answer the other member's question about going forward how much money we would be spending. It's probably a little confusing because you don't have those figures before you. I know what those are, a

Government Operations committee  For sure. As you know, we are the secretariat to cabinet. There's cabinet and the various cabinet committees. Ministers can't always be in Ottawa for cabinet committee meetings, and sometimes they want to call in. I've talked about the Internet, but let me talk about telecommunic

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. One of the things we did, which is something that we will always do to keep our security posture current, is that we worked across the government to make sure that business continuity plans were updated, streamlined, and linked to revised critical fun

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair, and I am grateful for it. Maybe what I'll do is take a step back. I believe it was in February 2011 that Canada and the United States announced they were going to work together to establish a new long-term partnership to accelerate the legi

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. The economic action plan was a one-stop shopping website where the priorities of the government were put so Canadians could go to one place to see what was going on with the government. I've spoken about the winding down of it subsequent to the elect

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Chair, I suspect when I respond that my colleagues to the right will nod their heads. Ms. Donoghue described the launch of the new website for the Public Service Commission last April. I would tell you that for folks in my position across governm

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. Going forward, we will be seeking $1.5 million in 2016-17. Maybe I'll ask Karen to explain how that will manifest itself in the estimates process.

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I will just talk about... I've just given you one year of information. Maybe I could be a bit more helpful. The total funding that the PCO will be seeking for the next six fiscal years will be $5.4 million, and thereafter it will be $700,000 ongoing. What is this going t

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm delighted to talk about that, because as the ADM of corporate services, I am uniquely positioned to do so. As we said before, our main function at the Privy Council Office is to provide advice and support and coordination. We do that for fairly senior le

Government Operations committee  Yes, in a very general way. I said in my opening remarks that one of the roles of the Privy Council Office was to house Michael Wernick, who is the head of the public service, and to foster a high-performing public service. In PCO we actually have one of our branches that is

Government Operations committee  I think that's a good question. As you know, Prime Minister Trudeau has been the Prime Minister since November 4, and he is in the process of developing how he would want to communicate through the Government of Canada website. He had, prior to becoming the Prime Minister, his o

Government Operations committee  I'm happy to do that. Let me divide it into two categories. As I said in my opening remarks, we are asking for $1 million to complete the work under the economic action plan, which of course concluded following the election in October. That was a stand-alone website that was sup

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  That's what I thought. FTE means a public servant. There were four folks who were involved in the public service in supporting that work and led I believe by a director. As I also said, that work wound down after the election and they have been retasked to support the priorities