Government Operations committee  You have mischaracterized the meetings with SNC-Lavalin. They were with respect to the actual administrative agreement that is in place with them, as opposed to the policy specifically. We will confirm that in writing after this meeting.

Government Operations committee  When the government consults on a policy, it's done in a public fashion. Anyone is free to—

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be extremely quick. Thank you for inviting us back. The only thing I want to highlight to you is that, in addition to the same cast of characters we brought with us the last time, we've asked Dr. Janet King, who is responsible for the federal science i

Government Operations committee  Just to eliminate the middleman, all questions on Phoenix are going to Mr. Linklater.

Government Operations committee  I would make a couple of points. You characterized her remarks quite accurately. What has happened is that there's been lot discussion, I would say, in various forums, including Parliament, the media and online, and a lot more engagement by people who may not necessarily have bee

Government Operations committee  I think that some of them are re-visitable ideas with some new input. But in terms of the ideas around transparency, and what could potentially be made public around decision-making, my recollection is that is a new discussion that has taken place. I didn't hear a lot about that

Government Operations committee  I can start and André can correct me if I misspeak. The polar icebreaker is a one-ship build. It's an extraordinarily complicated build and basically the most complicated build we have in the package. We are revisiting options around the polar, so no decision has been made as to

Government Operations committee  We are not in active discussion to my knowledge—again, André, chime in—but....

Government Operations committee  We don't have a time frame at this stage.

Government Operations committee  I suspect the former: six months.

Government Operations committee  Maybe I'll start. The benefits of the reordering are that we were able to start JSS block construction earlier, so there's a benefit there in terms of the JSS.

Government Operations committee  I don't have a number for you, but the other thing I think it does for us is by putting a one-ship gap between the two JSSs, it lets us take any learning from JSS 1 and apply it to JSS 2, so we think we get a more efficient build.

Government Operations committee  This has been a longstanding question around the technology available basically to avoid travel when you can. Can you attend or participate in meetings virtually, versus hopping on a plane and travelling? There has been significant work, I think, to upgrade the facilities to al

Government Operations committee  The e-procurement system is a really important system for the department and for the whole of government. This is a contract that is under way with Infosys as a prime contractor. It's basically to put an off-the-shelf tool in the hands of public servants to allow them to do the b

Government Operations committee  The shipbuilding strategy is now at a stage where you have certainty on the east coast in terms of what is being built. You have AOPS 1 through 8 all being delivered and planned as we speak, and then they will transition into building the surface combatants. They have a nice long