Public Accounts committee  Importantly, within the project budget there are budget lines for risks and contingencies. In this case, the project budget authority was $8.6 million. The project was delivered at $8.04 million, but included in that $8 million of the projected budget was about $1 million in cont

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, through you, the answer is yes. In terms of the appearance of this project in the corporate plan, the need to replace these four buildings and build a new service, maintenance and storage facility first appeared in our corporate plan in 2013-14. The way the governa

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, yes. There were actually four separate buildings deemed to be at the end of their useful life because of safety and health concerns. These were the four buildings that were demolished to make way, ultimately, for the new modernized facility.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  The total project budget did include the cost of demolition of the four buildings and decontamination of the soils underneath them. I don't have the exact figures—those two numbers—in front of me, but we could figure that out—

Public Accounts committee  There were costs associated. I don't think they were as high as $3 million, but it is important to note that there are also, of course, soft costs. There are contingencies. There are risk figures in there as well. You may have a more accurate description of the costs in front of

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I don't know that I can give a specific percentage. What I can say is that not only do we have a legislative responsibility to move towards net-zero carbon but also often what you find is that over the lifetime of the facility being built, you're going to recoup mor

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, what's important to note, I think, in understanding the context of checks and balances on spending conducted by the NCC there are three important, salient points. One of them is that we are subject to an annual audit by the Office of the Auditor General. The Office o

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I do think it's important in answering this question to provide a sense of what the financial oversight is.

Public Accounts committee  So—

Public Accounts committee  So on terms of accountability, which is what I was getting at, ultimately the board of the NCC is accountable for these projects. I, as the chief executive officer, am obviously the senior manager, and the accountability lies both with the board and with me as the chief executive

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I think there are two important things to note about the function of the actual building. One of them is that the building houses between 20 and 40 full-time and part-time staff. Think of groundskeepers—

Public Accounts committee  It's the touchdown workstation—

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. The service, maintenance and storage building has been part of plans initiated by the NCC as far back as 2013-14, where we indicated in our corporate plan the need to replace the four buildings that were later demolished and replaced by the single-ser