Traduction de «Analyse fondamentale des options de défense » (Français → Anglais) :

With regard to (c), the letter provided to PWGSC from the Department of National Defence, as requested by PWGSC acquisitions branch senior staff, was not in lieu of a finalized statement of operational requirements or a complete options analysis.

Question No. 413 Mr. Hoang Mai: With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) response to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA): (a) according to the government’s analysis, do the FATCA provisions comply with the provisions of the Convention Between Canada and the United States of America With Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital and its amending Protocol (2007); (b) how many citizens from the United States of America will be affected by FATCA, (ii) are there specific Canadian exemptions to FATCA; (c) has Canada negotiated with United States Treasury offici ...[+++]als or the IRS following the announcement of FATCA provisions, (i) at what time was the government made aware of these provisions, (ii) how long did it take Canada to respond to the initial creation of FATCA and its implementation, (iii) are there ongoing negotiations in this regard; (d) will Canada inform dual citizens about FATCA and, if so, (i) how, (ii) at what time, (iii) what department or agencies will be responsible; (e) has the government conducted any studies or mandated a task force to look into how much FATCA will cost Canadians and, if so, what are the cost implications resulting from the additional regulations and demands, (i) for the government, (ii) for the CRA, (iii) for Canadian banks, (iv) who will absorb these costs, (v) are there other types of non-financial costs such as efficiency or fairness reductions; (f) which Canadian civil liberties associations or other types of association has the government met with to discuss the privacy implications of FATCA and what actions will the government undertake to protect the fundamental civil liberties of all Canadians in this regard; (g) according to the government’s analysis, do the FATCA provisions comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act or the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and if so, which department undertook this assesment; ...

When analysing the appraisal and presenting the options, for example, it makes little mention of such fundamental issues as overcoming the inconsistencies with the rules of the World Trade Organization, enlargement to include the Eastern European countries, the reforms of the Community policies, including the CAP, the cohesion of national and Community action to promote development and the financial resources to be made available in the short and medium term.

Originally, it was to be an assessment largely of boost-phase missile defence options, i.e., missile defence options to strike missiles while their rocket motors are burning as opposed to later phases of a ballistic missile's flight. The committee revised this guidance somewhat, and we looked at boost-phase but we compared it to alternatives, in particular mid-course defence alternatives — shooting down the warheads as they fly through outer space.

Turning to our more recent work on defence procurement, the audit of alternative service delivery at the Department of National Defence repeated one of the themes of our audit of major capital projects: business cases and options analysis were often poorly done.