Translation of "government-wide management " (English → French) :

The Chair presented the FIFTH REPORT of the Sub-Committee on Agenda and Procedure, which is as follows: The Sub-Committee met on Thursday, February 28, 2002 and agreed to make the following recommendations: 1. That Committee meetings be scheduled to consider the following Chapters from the December 2001 Report of the Auditor General of Canada: Chapter 1 – (Financial Information Strategy: Infrastructure Readiness); Chapters 4 & 5 – (Voted Grants and Contributions: Government-Wide Management, Voted Grants and Contributions: Program Management); Chapter 6 – (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency – Economic Development); Chapter 8 – (Canad ...[+++]a Customs and Revenue Agency – Managing the Risks of Non-Compliance for Commercial Shipments Entering Canada); Chapter 13 - Other Audit Observations – Department of Finance.

In the 2013-14 Main Estimates, PWGSC's gross budget is $5.9 billion, explained as follows: $2.4 billion will pay for rent, fit-up and utilities for government-wide accommodation, Receiver General and central compensation administration functions such as banking fees, cheques and envelopes, and translation services to Parliament; $1.9 billion is related to providing optional services to departments, such as real property project management and translation services, on a cost-recovery basis; $0.9 billion will deliver core programs suc ...[+++]h as central purchasing and banking, public accounts, payroll and pension services; and $0.6 billion in capital is needed for Government of Canada buildings and infrastructure.

In addition, our audit policy is strengthening public sector accountability, risk management, resource stewardship and good governance by reorganizing and bolstering internal audit functions on a government-wide basis.

The secretariat supports the Treasury Board's role by establishing policies and standards to improve financial management practices in departments and agencies, by managing the government-wide implementation of them, by allocating and reallocating resources, by monitoring an analysis of the management of resources on a program, departmental, and sectoral basis, by ensuring that resource management is integrated with the government's decision-making and priority-setting processes, and, finally, by reporting on government expenditures.

It is necessary to create Community-wide clarity and transparency in respect of legal issues to be settled in the event of takeover bids and to prevent patterns of corporate restructuring within the Community from being distorted by arbitrary differences in governance and management cultures.

The CGA therefore recommends that the defence policy review concentrate on the gathering crisis of the future force and its serious consequences for Canada-United States relations and foreign policy generally; provide advice to the government on how Canada is to manage domestic security and foreign policy with ever-decreasing military capabilities; recommend ways in which present force capabilities might be stretched and preserved until replacements come on line; construct a costed future force program to direct the rebuilding and transformation of Canada's vital military capabilities; identify high priority capabilities and the cost ...[+++]s to rebuild them; indicate ways to reform government-wide acquisition policies and processes to facilitate the rapid recovery of failing capabilities; initiate a fundamental examination of Canadian Forces personnel policies to bring them into line with predicted operational realities; and finally, outline the parliamentary process for overseeing the recovery of military capabilities.