Public Accounts committee  I apologize, Mr. Christopherson, that you thought I was trying to spin or mislead this committee. That's absolutely not my intent. It's not how I manage. There are 90 recommendations out of the SSAV report that the CDS initiated before the Auditor General had begun his report, b

Public Accounts committee  I'll maybe start with the second question and ask Admiral Cassivi to talk about the on-campus dynamics. Young people—people of any age—can apply to Royal Military College as a way to be recruited into the Canadian Armed Forces and obtain an education. There are multiple ways of

Public Accounts committee  Again, for the majority of the non-academic staff, if they're civilians, they're public servants and that is a public servant's salary or they're military, so of course, they're paid according to their rank. We can look at the number of staff and that's one of the things we will

Public Accounts committee  There's a number of elements to your question. First of all, we'll take the salary of the staff. Those are public servants and their salaries are set by the Treasury Board based on their academic standards, qualifications, how they publish papers, and so on, like other academic p

Public Accounts committee  The report came out in the fall, in the middle of the academic year. We're not changing the curriculum in the middle of the academic year. We're working with defence scientists to look at the best mix of programs within the college. We've said in our action plan that we are doing

Public Accounts committee  The student-teacher ratio at RMC is significantly smaller. We have a very large faculty. The intake of students is smaller every year, as we explained earlier, because of the size of the infrastructure and the training that's given there. We limit the number of students who come

Public Accounts committee  I'm the accounting officer for the department. It is my responsibility to ensure the stewardship of public funds. You've explained some of the reasons why the costs are higher: the low student-to-faculty ratio, the range of programs offered, and the fact that every program is o

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask the admiral to talk about the number of students coming in, but there is a fixed infrastructure at the college. Everybody lives at the college, so more residences, more cafeterias, and more library space...all of those things do limit the number of students we can take i

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Noted.

Public Accounts committee  It's a very interesting question. I think we'll probably both want to have a comment on it. I do believe that, yes, RMC is an essential and critical part of the infrastructure of developing officers within the Canadian Armed Forces. We are a diverse country, with diverse backgro

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, and thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting me to speak with you and members of the committee about the Auditor General's sixth report on the Royal Military College of Canada. I'm pleased to have the Commander of the Canadian Defence Academy, Rea

National Defence committee  Do you want to answer?

National Defence committee  It's longer by seven months.

National Defence committee  It was my file. The RFP is to be closed on November 17. We're not anticipating, nor do we desire, any other extensions. That RFP has to close. Every delay costs us money. We understand that completely. A lot of the stops and starts on this procurement were caused by how we gate

National Defence committee  We have, but I think we're going to have some very strong bids. Time will tell. I don't know absolutely the number at this time, but that's going to happen in a bid this complex. It was the first one in quite some time. I'm hoping the diligence and caution that were put into it w