Senior Staff Officer - Combat Systems Readiness [ SSO CSR ]

Senior Staff Officer - Ships Planned Maintenance [ SSO SPM ]

I was asked to do a review of the human resources system a couple of years ago by the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, and at about day two we came to the conclusion that the single most limiting factor on the deployment of the Canadian Forces, a task force, was the absence of senior logistics officers.

We have a separate office there with one senior management staff. She is following up on industrial project opportunities at the same time as developing local government policy and administrative systems on a for-fee basis.

(Return tabled) Question No. 611 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to the government’s plans for resource development, as described in the section entitled “Responsible Resource Development” in Chapter 3.2 of Budget 2012: (a) what are all examples of federal environmental laws that are stronger than provincial laws and how will the proposed legislative changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) affect the assessment of environmental impacts of industrial projects that cross provincial borders; (b) what research, action, or investment has the government undertaken to study impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the ...[+++] CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impacts, (iii) risk mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (c) what briefing notes, memos, or any other documentation, including, for each, the details of its findings and recommendations, have been provided to the Prime Minister, Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of the Environment, their respective Parliamentary Secretaries, their respective Deputy Ministers, and their respective staff members, regarding impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impacts, (iii) mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (d) will the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA give any consideration to (i) measuring negative impacts of development, (ii) managing negative impacts of development; (e) by what date will the government bring forth new “legislation to streamline the review process for major economic projects” (Budget 2012, p. 89); (f) what are the projected costs of changes to the CEAA for each province and territory; (g) what assessments of the adequacy of the environmental assessment process in each province and territory have been conducted, (i) what were the dates of any such assessments, (ii) what wer ...

First a group of 49 former U.S. generals, admirals and senior officers, including a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr., warned Canada to reject the Bush administration's proposed system because the program is unproven and too expensive to make it worth while.