National Defence committee  For me, living this on a daily basis—tomorrow I will chair an ADM-level committee on the EPS and will review a few projects—I actually find it's a strength of the system. With the way we are structured now and the way we come together through a very structured, rigid governance,

National Defence committee  They are. Every month, there's an ADM-level committee on defence procurement, so that's 12 a year. There are DG-level consultations. For me, it works. The synchronization with what we need to do is there. When we need to engage ministers, we're all at the table and we make sure t

National Defence committee  That's a tough question because I wouldn't say that we're not doing anything hard specifically. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, I think of us as delivering through a system. This system needs refinement—there's no doubt about that—and continuous improvement.

National Defence committee  One of the things we did—and Samantha and I both talked about this in our opening remarks—was take a risk-based approach, delegating more to PSPC and not having to go to the Treasury Board every time with a submission. This allows our colleagues at the Treasury Board to focus on

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I thank the member for her question. Unfortunately, I cannot speak to this in detail. This is a project that is ongoing and there is very little I can say. We are in the decision-making process. What I can say is that all pillars of the Defence Procurement Strategy a

National Defence committee  Some variables led us to look at the Aurora replacement project in a different way. We are still at the heart of these discussions.

National Defence committee  Again, for me there are two key components to this culture. I'll go back to my previous statement about preprocurement, procurement and post-procurement. I'm actually quite intrigued by the reaction here about the three years for the ammunition, so I will touch on that a bit. F

National Defence committee  There's nothing prohibited here. It's an investment in a project. The big picture is that the shipyards were asked to fund infrastructure investment to reach what we call a “target state” within the national shipbuilding strategy. A target state means that they have to reach a l

National Defence committee  I thank the member for her question. In the field of defence and navy, contracts and projects are so large that it is difficult to have standing offers. The Government of Canada uses them to purchase other products and services. That said, there are things we can do. For examp

National Defence committee  Before I answer the question with specific pieces, I'll say I'm a computer engineer, so I look at things maybe in a very binary fashion. Defence procurement is being labelled as a whole bunch of things, but there are predefence procurement things. There is what I call pure and ra

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. We run all of the procurement processes within the defence procurement strategy apparatus. I described it in my opening remarks as a system. It's a complex system, but it's an effective system that is also benefiting from a very rigid known governance

National Defence committee  Actually, another thing that is effective and quite clear within defence procurement strategy governance is the accountabilities. For the set of policies, procedures, processes and laws that we operate under at the moment, the accountabilities in the discussions we have within th

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. My name is Simon Page. I am the assistant deputy minister of defence and marine procurement at Public Services and Procurement Canada. Thank you for the opportunity to appear here today to discuss the impact

Government Operations committee  The only thing I would add would be that this is part of the information-gathering process that we're conducting now. On your second question—about knowing if a developmental option would be faster than the current option—this is a request for information in the information-gath

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I don't have anything to add actually. All the relationships and the contracting through Defence Construction do not fall under the defence and marine portfolio of PSPC. We do monitor the projects with them, because many of the infrastructure projects