Public Safety committee  That's a very good question. The short answer is, not quite. Our American friends have a different process. The five allies have, to one degree or another, a process that reviews foreign investments. Thresholds and those kinds of things are different. However, the detailed st

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  As a general rule.... I'll answer it that way because I don't want to get into a specific case, and I think you understand that.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I should just be clear, because this is an important governance issue, that SIRC is not a branch of the portfolio.

Public Safety committee  No, it's not. It's in the Prime Minister's portfolio, just to be clear, so there's no confusion about roles and.... We, from time to time, are blessed by reports from the committee that go to the minister, but SIRC reports and works, in terms of its operations and supplementary e

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the invitation to discuss the 2017-18 supplementary estimates (A) for the Department of Public Safety. It’s an honour to have the opportunity to highlight our organization's efforts to keep Canadians safe and to say how these investments fit into that wo

Public Accounts committee  That's quite a tall order, sir. Briefly, the proof will be in the pudding. Second, I think the point of a dialogue is that while I think the Auditor General would be pleased if we got it completely right the first time, I don't think he expects us to. I think we all expect the O

Public Accounts committee  I think we expect or fully understand that we will be back here talking about these things. I also think that we fully expect that you will find shortcomings. I have been thinking about outcome measurement for a long time. This is very tough stuff. Part of it is getting started

Public Accounts committee  It's actually up to parliamentarians.

Public Accounts committee  Since some of those decisions are certainly outside of my remit, and some of them are legislative, I'm not going to presume when Parliament's going to deal with the entry/exit legislation or the preclearance legislation, for example. The objective for public servants is to have

Public Accounts committee  I guess I would say it would be negotiations with the EU. There may be others. I don't have a comprehensive list.

Public Accounts committee  I'll answer very briefly and then let my colleagues who are responsible for the initiative continue. The legislation has been introduced. There have been elements of it that have been implemented. It has not been completed, but there have been elements that have been implemented.

Public Accounts committee  I'll take a stab at it. I think you're asking a pretty fundamental question. We work in a Westminster model, where ministers are accountable to the House, appropriately, and accounting officers to parliamentarians, for the operation of their individual departments. Cutting across

Public Accounts committee  I can take a stab at that. If you're really asking why these initiatives were selected, it was a product of a negotiation between Canada and the United States at the time, led by the highest levels of both governments. Frankly, listening to stakeholders, a lot of consultation d

Public Accounts committee  I think a good example is what John has given you, a single window. It's a good idea in concept, something they were looking for. The implementation of it has been done. The take-up hasn't. Why? I think our friends at CBSA have described it. I think in other instances, the syst