Kristina Tesser Derksen

Thank you. I'm sorry. I thought my name was on the list. I apologize for coming in so late. I appreciate everyone's patience while I had colleagues fill in for me. MP Aboultaif I was just up in the House delivering a speech on's bill for the living donor award. I have to say, Mr. Chair, coming out of that speech, we were talking about people who are facing life-and-death circumstances and need [more]

In the Auditor General's 2023 report, she was pretty pointed in her critique. She said that some of the biggest, most important computer systems were basically falling apart and might crash. She pointed out that it had been decades since it was first brought to the government's attention, that there was a “significant issue” with “delays in modernizing” and that it was crucial to do so. Based on [more]

Thanks very much Mr. Chair. MP Koutrakis It's nice to be here this morning. I am filling in for my colleague,. Thanks for the warm welcome. I want to mention the motion we just voted on. I think it's important that people understand that the reason we didn't vote in favour of the motion is that we have witnesses we want to hear from and we didn't want to—

Are you confident that this benefit will actually trickle down to municipalities? There has been some criticism that builders and developers will simply adjust their pricing to fill in that gap.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. I wanted to note that, in the last round, one of our opposition colleagues was complaining quite a bit about the delays she had experienced at Service Canada locations. I think that's a great example of why we have to be careful about cutting funding to service delivery. I was a municipal councillor in my riding of Milton East—Halton Hills South. Municipalities depend a great [more]

Thanks for that. I know there was a review by some consultants who said the initial cost estimates for software and implementation were well below the industry average and timelines would likely be much longer. Perhaps they had the benefit of hindsight. You did explain that it was impossible at the time to estimate how much complexity you'd be dealing with. Do you think that's a fair comment [more]

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that. Some of you may know that I am regular member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. We have been dealing quite extensively with this issue there. We've had motions presented there that we've debated at length. It's supposed to be a non-partisan committee. We do a pretty good job of that at public accounts. We have good discussions and are able to put [more]

Thank you for that very thorough answer. With the remainder of my time, Mr. Chair, I'd like to present a motion. I think there's been some discussion on this. No, I retract that. I guess we're going to do that after the witnesses have left.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the witnesses. I often ask questions about workplace culture—how it informs the different processes and policies, how these are implemented, how they affect how money is spent and how we get our best value for it. I will ask a question of Ms. ShankarNarayan, if that's okay. The Auditor General, in her report, identified problems and some significant gaps. She [more]