Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. It's an excellent question. We have a number of initiatives, and we transferred that money to a number of departments. By the way, this information is also available on the “greening government” website. I can certainly provide the URL for

Government Operations committee  This is an excellent question. I cannot respond in detail, but I will definitely aim to find you the answer and respond to the committee.

Government Operations committee  I would suspect that through the Centre for Greening Government there is sharing of information on best practices. One of the objectives of the Centre for Greening Government is to ensure that a department can benefit from its own best practices and share this information within

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, we've introduced new technology that lets all Treasury Board Secretariat employees work remotely and collaborate with colleagues both within the department and in other departments. As for the cost of our Microsoft 365 implementation project, I

Government Operations committee  Yes, I stopped at that point because I saw that you were having problems. The part our organization is responsible for represents $700,000. That's mainly employee salaries and work we've done internally. As to whether any contracts have been signed, perhaps you should put that

Government Operations committee  I'll answer that question. We can definitely see a $511-million cut to our appropriations in the main estimates. That doesn't mean we don't attach any importance to public service insurance plans. The fact is there is a funding plan for those plans. We're working with the Office

Government Operations committee  The $19 million that you see in our supplementary estimates (B) is for the office of the chief information officer to help provide new processes, stabilize the data and exercise a business owner role with respect to Phoenix stabilization, and also to help bridge to the next gener

Government Operations committee  My short answer is no because that funding covers only one year. Since the work will have to continue over the next few years, we will probably request additional funding.

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately I can't give you any details on the timeline. On April 1 of this year, responsibility for the new next-generation pay system was transferred to Shared Services Canada, which is now the department implementing pilot projects and managing the timeline. That will be

Government Operations committee  I can't give you any details. Once again, that would be a question to ask my colleagues at Shared Services Canada. All I can say is that's the name they chose to give the new pay system.

Government Operations committee  I can answer this question, Minister. I'd like to thank the MP for her question. In short, it's a question of dates. When the main estimates were being prepared, these items had not yet been approved. The collective agreements had been neither signed nor negotiated. So the reas

Government Operations committee  To date, we have 1,021 people who have put their claims forward. The average amount is about $53,000 per claim.

Government Operations committee  No, we don't expect any additional funding for this settlement at this point. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  No, there are no cut-off dates for future claims. It's been left open in terms of putting forward claims from former RCMP members.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. The government is doing many projects with a number of government departments to reduce its GHG emissions. Two good examples in these estimates are projects that we're doing with Health Canada and Fisheries and Oceans. First of all, with