Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, for the most part, the issues are not related to money. Just as a bit of context for the overall portfolio projects we have, about 75% of the projects are green, 13% are yellow, about 7% are red, and approximately 6% remain to be classified.

Government Operations committee  There is progress on moving a number of them to yellows. Some are red, and likely will remain red for a period of time yet.

Government Operations committee  StatsCan is not red.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We've already gone through who I'm accompanied by, including Mr. Barr, who is the director general for strategic policy, planning, and reporting. I'd like to provide an update on the measures Shared Services Canada, known as SSC, has taken to improve infor

Government Operations committee  I am Ron Parker, President of Shared Services Canada.

Government Operations committee  In the main estimates, there are three main projects that this funding is targeted to: completion of the migration of the National Research Council applications and data to the new network; improving enterprise management of internal credentials, meaning who's who and what level

Government Operations committee  We discussed the email services, the communication networks, and the migration of work to the new data centres.

Government Operations committee  We are still working on the project and making progress. However, unfortunately, I am not yet able to give you more details. An external review of the proposals will be completed by the fall, and then we will make a plan. The plan will likely be submitted to the minister and cabi

Government Operations committee  We have a number of channels to work with the vendor community. We have a an IT round table that we meet regularly with to go through the issues and the approach to procurement. There are a number of subcommittees from that group looking at different issues related to procurement

Government Operations committee  I have here Mr. Glowacki, the chief operating officer; Alain Duplantie, our senior ADM of corporate services and chief financial officer; and Mr. Graham Barr, our director general of strategic policy, planning and reporting.

Government Operations committee  In terms of lessons learned, first, I would go back and think about the culture change that's implied in bringing 43 departments together and the personnel from those departments and the plan for that. There were 43 different ways of doing things and 43 different ways of processi

Government Operations committee  We have a combined financial structure. We have a base appropriation. The initial base was determined back when the department was set up in the 2009-10 fiscal year to benchmark. The departments were asked how much they were spending on these IT services. When Shared Services was

Government Operations committee  In terms of the planning, I can't say what happened in the past. What I can say is that in terms of building the plans for the future, we have a very close eye on labour force availability and where we stand. We are slightly below labour force availability with respect to women.

Government Operations committee  If you had the time, it would be best to go to the data centre in Barrie, but there's one in Gatineau that is very convenient.

Government Operations committee  The contract for the expansion will be let very soon.