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Finance committee  Let me take a shot at that—

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  Okay. Sometimes it occurs; sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's a minister. Sometimes it's a staff person. Sometimes it's an employee. It varies. Nothing is particularly typical.

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  I'm just going to add to that. Discussions prior to a public announcement is a regular course of activity. There's nothing strange about it. I've seen it all the time.

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  Indeed, and I will definitely speak more slowly. I'm just about to wrap up anyway. Under a contribution agreement, the government sets the high-level funding parameters, including the objectives, desired outcomes, eligible expenditures and performance measurement. However, the g

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to share my opening statement time with Rachel Wernick. She can follow me right after. Kwe. Good day. I'm very pleased to be here and to be able to join you from Algonquin territory today. I'd like to thank the members of this committee for t

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  Got it. They also have my remarks. Mr. Chair, back in March and April, when the severity of the pandemic became obvious, the Government of Canada focused its efforts on providing Canadians with help as quickly as possible. I know that, at Employment and Social Development, the p

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  Certainly. I won't take long. I just wanted to acknowledge my fellow public servants, particularly those at ESDC, because in the midst of the severity of this pandemic, officials have been essentially working around the clock to deliver new emergency supports and payments to Can

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  There are different mechanisms to actually award a contribution agreement. The first one would be a call for proposals. However, we determined at the time that a call for proposals, an open call, would take about two to three months, at a minimum, to actually get something in pla

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  I was just wrapping up with that. An actual call for proposals would take several months to move forward with, and we needed to get this program off the ground very quickly, because at the time of the pandemic, in the severity of the pandemic, students were graduating. Thank y

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, thank you. The program Mr. Fortin is referring to is the Canada service corps. It's a program that continues and, in fact, was enhanced to some degree as well, so everyone involved with the Canada service corps is working very hard.

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister. Indeed, “sole-source contract” is incorrect terminology. I'll give a little bit of a flavour of the difference between a contribution agreement and a contract. Contribution agreements are regularly used by the government to further

July 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Gina Wilson