Public Accounts committee  Thanks for the question, Madam Chair. I have a couple of points to make here. Training for procurement officers is always evolving, so agile is the flavour of the day. We're updating our training. We've already started, but there is more to come on that front in terms of making

Public Accounts committee  Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. I can come back to this later if it's of interest, but that there are two things. I think improving the sophistication of our analytics is one, and the Auditor General has touched on this. We've had some experience of this in the past, where it was

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I am pleased to be here with colleagues to discuss the ways in which Public Services and Procurement Canada is responding to the Auditor General of Canada's audits of the “Procurement of Complex Information Technology Solutions”, tabled this past winter.

Public Accounts committee  They evolved. They weren't necessarily one complete package. Some were individual measures, and some were part of a broader group. Going from memory here, I would say there were discussions over about a year, on and off, with the shipyards to talk about a schedule and mitigation

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, I should have mentioned also that the most recent, newest addition of the third yard would be another measure in terms of how the program has evolved to better mitigate risk.

Public Accounts committee  The toolset we will have in place from a risk management perspective, new software and the earned value management approach in dealing with the yards are some tools that we can likely use on other large projects of this scale as well. We'll look to leverage those investments as w

Public Accounts committee  Colleagues from the Office of the Auditor General, if you want to add on to this, please do. I have a couple of examples. First, measures to extend the lives of current vessels obviously have to be an important measure here. The other would be to add additional Arctic and offsho

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your question. As we have already announced, the Davie shipyard is currently going through the process to become the third shipyard. That is the first step before a contract is signed. So we must continue to work with the Davie shipyard, to ensure it completes the

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. There are two aspects to that question, and I may turn to Mr. Kennedy to talk about the workforce in the yards. With regard to the HR capacity inside government, which is part of the question—and we have control over that—we have added capacity, both thr

Public Accounts committee  On the schedule delays, Madam Chair, I have a few points to offer here. Number one, the initial schedules, way back when, were indeed not realistic. As time marched on, people realized that those initial schedules just weren't going to hold, and there were adjustments made. The

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. An important recommendation for the Auditor General as we work through the third yard process.... I mentioned earlier that the early days of the national shipbuilding strategy were characterized by overly optimistic forecasts—on all sides, frankly. Taking

Public Accounts committee  There are two things. Number one, I'll speak to the new-build projects and maybe turn to my colleagues from National Defence and Fisheries and Oceans to talk about any other mitigation measures for the existing fleets. This means it is absolutely critical to work with existing

Public Accounts committee  I think, Madam Chair, we'll have to let Defence, Fisheries and Oceans and the Coast Guard answer that.

Public Accounts committee  You can look to the Auditor General's recommendations for good clues as to where the expertise is needed, such as in risk management, to make sure we're world-class there. If you're into discussions of capability, I would leave that to my colleagues at Defence and the Coast Guard

Public Accounts committee  The premise of that question may be a bit of an oversimplification of where things are. Of course, there have been ongoing discussions with the yards about schedules. I think we're now in a better position to understand—