National Defence committee  I'll situate the role of the Treasury Board Secretariat. After you have the requirements, you do the procurement. If there are Treasury Board approvals needed, we work closely with PSPC and DND to make sure that those come forward at an expedited pace. As this committee's already

National Defence committee  What I would say is that each minister has brought forward proposals. Those proposals just came to Treasury Board Secretariat a couple of days ago. Those proposals are being reviewed, and those decisions are still to be made.

National Defence committee  You're correct that the refocusing of spending is looking at professional services and travel. There is a look at operations and transfer payments. I think it's been clear that savings from underutilized spending will be shifted to other priorities, so it is about refocusing. In

National Defence committee  I'll say a couple of things. First of all, Treasury Board policy is principle-based now. We moved from a very prescriptive policy—it was something like 80 pages long—to a very short principle-based policy to give more flexibility. If you ask my colleagues whether Treasury Board

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I may defer to my PSPC colleague, as the project sponsor.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Samantha Tattersall. I am the assistant comptroller general for the acquired services and assets sector within the Office of the Comptroller General at Treasury Board Secretariat. I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to be here today with my

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I can talk generally about what we've been doing on greening government in the operations. There are some key highlights I would mention. First of all, we've been making efforts to green our fleet. All executive vehicles are to be green or hybrid. We

Government Operations committee  In terms of the Government of Canada's fleet, as I said, there are the executive vehicles and then there are our conventional light-duty vehicles. On the executive side, it's either net-zero or hybrid. As I said, 95% are. I see the list of those and can tell you that there are Pa

Government Operations committee  I'll give you a general answer. I don't have all the specifics, but the infrastructure goes hand in glove with it, so we are working with departments on how to implement the infrastructure. I don't have any more specific details.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I would like to point out that we have published a new guide on the official languages in contracting. Each contract has its own conditions. Ultimately, the government must live up to its obligations. If we require documents in English, it might be b

Government Operations committee  The indigenous 5%, as the minister indicated, is being implemented over a three-year time frame. We're in the first year of implementation, so we'll have the results after the end of this fiscal year. We have been working with PSPC and ISC to do a number of things to support ou

Government Operations committee  PSPC is responsible for the management of office space, so I know that they're actively working with each of the departments to understand what their hybrid plans will be so they can have a portfolio approach to what they will keep and what they may dispose of. That would be a

Government Operations committee  Just generally, going back maybe to your specific example, departments, deputy heads, are ultimately accountable for how they undertake their resources and how they decide to procure. If it's of a certain level, it will come into Treasury Board for oversight in the specific case.

Government Operations committee  PSPC would have had a supply arrangement. As I understand, PSPC are here later this week, so you may want to put the question to them at that time. My understanding is that that was a supply arrangement they had in place, and that CBSA leveraged that supply arrangement.

Government Operations committee  I'll start, and then I'll pass it to Paul. For clarity, that policy is a policy of ISED. It is not a Treasury Board policy. That's important context. Paul, I'll turn to you to speak about the efforts of OCIO.