Government Operations committee  I don't understand it and I wish it could be changed. What the government really needs to work on is figuring out where risk should reside. Not all risk should go to the contractor. Some should stay with the government. That's a key principle.

Government Operations committee  I can't really talk to all that's going on within the government, but there's been a demographic transition. A lot of the older and more experienced people have retired. A number of the other people who have the expertise within the departments, have been promoted, and unfortunat

Government Operations committee  Certainly some of the private sector clients we most enjoy working with are the ones who bring us in early, as Mr. Gamble was saying, and treat us as part of an integrated project team. I don't like that terminology but it's sometimes useful. Don't dictate the solution. Tell us

Government Operations committee  It's something that we see elsewhere in the world. I mentioned the U.S., Australia, South Africa where we've done proposals recently. They will say that you're limited to 20 pages for your technical proposal. We very rarely see that in Canada. As I said, on our polar icebreaker p

Government Operations committee  Let's take National Defence as an example. They have a very ambitious procurement program which is coming up at the moment, and because they haven't had any major procurements for many years, they don't have enough staff to deal with this. This has been said by DND; it's been sai

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the opportunity to appear in front of this committee. Improving government procurement is, in our company's opinion, a real priority for the health of Canada's economy and for the perception of Canada's government by its taxpay