Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, are you asking if SNC-Lavalin participated in the consultations?

Government Operations committee  I don't know the answer to that directly, but what I meant when I said that was we had put together this industry engagement group, and that would include organizations like Construction Canada. I don't remember all of the others. Do you have a list?

Government Operations committee  I should have said industry organizations and associations more than individual industry companies. They were more industry associations.

Government Operations committee  What we heard on a couple of different levels was that there is—because the policy hasn't yet been changed—a 10-year fixed debarment term and that industry was amenable to potentially broadening the scope of the triggers that could potentially cause debarment. They requested some

Government Operations committee  In the fall of 2017, we held a public consultation. As I mentioned, we heard 70 submissions from 300 organizations. It was really quite extraordinary, the feedback we got. We then took that feedback in and produced what we called a “what we heard” report. It was effectively a pu

Government Operations committee  I want to have an accurate number, so I'm going to ask Michael. Michael, would you know that?

Government Operations committee  That's what I was going to guess, but I didn't want guess.

Government Operations committee  I am, for sure.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I'll do my best. Basically, the integrity regime is a suite of administrative tools to protect the integrity of procurement and real property agreements. It was put in place in July 2015 by the previous government. The purpose was to take action against improper, unet

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I will do the introductions via my opening statement. Mr. Chair and committee members, good afternoon. I'm very pleased to be here today, and to have the opportunity to appear before you to discuss our supplementary estimates (B) as well as updates on some of our re

Justice  Mr. Speaker, our government works to ensure the highest ethical standards for government procurement and effectively addressing wrongdoing. We have developed and are implementing a stronger integrity regime that holds companies accountable. PSPC has entered into an administrative

Justice  Mr. Speaker, it is the practice of the government to put in place administrative agreements with companies while criminal proceedings are under way. This administrative agreement will terminate if there is a criminal conviction. In the meantime, we cannot comment on any ongoing c

Justice  Mr. Speaker, it was the Conservative government that put in place the integrity regime, and our government is working to in fact enhance it. We are increasing the scope of activities that could result in debarment from contracts with the government with our enhanced integrity reg

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, I completely agree that Canada's public servants deserve to be paid on time and accurately for the important work they do. More than 170,000 cases have been cleared from the backlog since January 2018, and we are working very hard to accelerate the progress being mad

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, as I said, since January 2018, the backlog has gone down by 160,000 cases. We are doing whatever we possibly can to make sure our public servants are paid on time and accurately. In May of this year, all the departments will be serviced by pay pods. Employees are s