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Public Accounts committee I wouldn't want to hazard a guess on their behalf.
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Public Accounts committee I'll speak for myself. We make management decisions all the time. Any additional information that you can bring to the conversation that gives you a better-informed decision, you're making a better—
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Public Accounts committee It depends on how big the project is. That's a very good question. We were debating just this morning in terms of what the cut-off point is between dozens—my words, nobody else's—of individual indicators that take time and money to develop versus one or two that could cut acros
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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.
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Public Accounts committee It's actually up to parliamentarians.
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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.
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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
February 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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.
June 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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
June 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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
June 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Public Safety committee Would you like me to take a stab at that, Mr. Clement?
June 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Public Safety committee Your first question was about the process of how CSIS is informed. The act changed in 2009, I believe. It requires companies to inform the government. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it doesn't. With regard to the intelligence community, we have an organization in Public Safet
June 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
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
June 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown