Transport committee  I think, as I indicated in my earlier comments, there is a role for the proponent—the government or ourselves—to identify the benefits that we see in a project that we are going to undertake, and certainly that would come from the consultation process we talked about earlier. I a

Transport committee  I think it needs to be clear in terms of what the proponent is asking for from the contract. As I think we've all said, it would be unique to each project. They may identify, for example, that we want first nations employment or we want a WINTO program, women in non-traditional o

Transport committee  I'd like to say thank you for the question.... It's pretty loaded. I mentioned the idea of thresholds earlier and I think that would definitely need to apply here. There would certainly be a need to bring in the experts from the contracting world. It's a complex world. One of th

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. I wouldn't say why this bill might not be good, but I would make a couple of observations. Bob and I have talked about this. I don't have the answer, but you may want to consider a dollar limit because hundreds of thousands of contracts are let every

Transport committee  Yes, thank you. First of all, I think it's key that a matrix to evaluate the contracts, the bids from the contractors, would need to take this aspect into account. As the government or the proponent was reviewing the bids, they would see this and they would be awarding points fo

Transport committee  Oui.

Transport committee  Very much so. That's our experience. I can speak to that from two recent examples. We engaged in significant community consultation in Ottawa for the former base, CFB Rockcliffe. Over 250 meetings were held before we submitted the plan to city council. These were town halls, wo

Transport committee  In our experience with consultation, yes.

Transport committee  Yes. One of our core approaches is commemoration of heritage uses of the properties that we work in. One of the things that we want to do is recognize those historic uses. We have so far invested funds in 11 legacy commemoration projects that recognize first nations or military u

Transport committee  Certainly, and I agree with the other witnesses that it really would be project specific, that there are things that would suit some projects more than others, and some that might be unique to a special project. The area of sustainability is an interesting one in terms of toxic

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. It's an excellent point. It's something that I see in the wording of the bill as it stands now, and please understand my comments are about improvement. As the proponent, whether it's Canada Lands or the government, we will identify the benefits that

Transport committee  It's an interesting question. It depends on how auditable, I suppose, one would want the indication of the benefits to be. In my experience, and in my prior position as a senior assistant deputy minister in the government as well, we wrestled with the question when we let a cont

Transport committee  An additional penalty is an interesting question. There would need to be some time expended. I think we would all agree on that. Could they do it in-house? Could they indicate to us simply in their bid how many jobs they are going to employ to execute the work? I think that woul

Transport committee  Good morning, Chair Sgro and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting Canada Lands Company to appear today. In order to provide more detail and perspective, I am accompanied today by Mr. Robert Howald, executive vice-president of real estate at the Canada Lands Company.