Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. I will certainly miss these appearances.

Government Operations committee  I can supply the actual date.

Government Operations committee  Obviously it will be in time for the 150th anniversary, but I've forgotten the specific date.

Government Operations committee  Then I'll give you a 20-second answer. I think you've already flagged in your question that some of the significant challenges are that many of these properties might well need investments, repairs, and conversions to be suitable for social housing. That really would be the bigge

Government Operations committee  Again, thank you for the question. Actually, I received an update on that a few weeks ago, and at that time it was on schedule.

Government Operations committee  Again, I'll ask Kevin Radford.

Government Operations committee  The one thing I should say that I probably should have said in my initial response, which I'm sure you know, is that the overall responsibility for that project is with Transport and Infrastructure; it is not with our department. We've worked with and supported them very closely

Government Operations committee  I think the question is better asked to Transport, because it is a policy question around tolls.

Government Operations committee  I think you've answered the question. If you had noticed, I think we would be having a much more difficult discussion at this committee.

Government Operations committee  I think people often say that in government you can't effectively manage big projects. I want to say that this was an enormous project of consolidating pay administration that was divided among every department and agency in government. Consolidating it into a pay centre in Miram

Government Operations committee  I actually do have figures in front of me and I think it's 80%. Eighty per cent of the contracts basically do go to small and medium-sized businesses, so they are very successful in an aggregate sense. Now that's 80% of the contracts. That's not 80% of the value of procurement. I

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  I really can't add anything to the comments the minister has already made on Canada Post.

Government Operations committee  I'll turn the details over again to my colleague Kevin Radford, but this is part of a long-standing program to remediate many contaminated sites across the country, and they vary from very large sites with significant problems to small sites throughout the country. A lot of the i

Government Operations committee  I can give you several examples, and the general point you made is exactly the feedback that we've gotten from consultations with a very large number of companies, most of which are small and medium-sized companies, that do business with the Government of Canada. They've made the