Translation of "Code de vérification du mode de livraison " (French → English) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 88 Mr. Garry Breitkreuz: With regard to the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Canadian Firearms Registration System (CFRS) Alternate Services Delivery (ASD) contract that was eventually awarded to Team Centra (a consortium of CGI Group and BDP Business Data Services Limited) in 2002: (a) were bidders required to agree to pay a penalty of $30,000 per day for every day their system was not implemented after the Service Effective Date (SED) to defray costs of paying two vendors, E.D.S. of Canada Ltd (EDS) and Team Centra, at the same time and, if so, was this clause or a similar penalty clause carried forward into the contractual agreement between Team Centra and the Crown; (b) what was the official ...[+++] Contract Notification Date (CND) as required by the RFP; (c) what was the exact contracted SED; (d) in accordance with the RFP requirement, how much has Team Centra paid to the Crown based on the contracted SED; (e) how much has the Crown paid to EDS, Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP since the original SED of the ASD contract with Team Centra; (f) what deliverables were provided by EDS in return for these payments; (g) what deliverables were provided by Team Centra in return for these payments; (h) is the anticipated overlap of the two systems (CFRS I and CFRS II) still in accordance with the requirement in the RFP; (i) was the intent of the RFP to ensure no payment was made to the “Systems Integrator” until the system was delivered and, if so, when was the system delivered and what was the ongoing monthly charge to the Crown from Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP and what was the purpose of these charges; (j) has the user acceptance testing taken place on the Team Centra Application Code; (k) what was the value of the EDS Change Request to incorporate Bill C-10A amendments into the CFRS I system and why was this request needed; (l) what is the estimated dollar value and revised end date for the contracts currently under review with Team ...

The goals of the prostitution task force, as set out in 1992, when the task force came into being then the task force was made up of the joint forces of the Halifax police, Dartmouth police, Bedford police, and the RCMP, and today it is made up of members of the RCMP and Halifax Regional Police were seven: one, conduct police investigations into the criminal activities of the pimps and their associates, to gather evidence that will successfully achieve a conviction in criminal court; two, convince teenage prostitutes to testify in court against their pimps; three, assist in the rehabilitation ...[+++] of teenage prostitutes by working with social services professionals to change their lifestyles and their self-esteem; four, maintain a complete record of all apparent income, expenditures, and financial holdings of the targets, for eventual referral to federal-provincial tax departments; five, ensure that all information of enforcement interest to another police agency is passed on so that appropriate follow-up action is facilitated; six, develop sources and pay informants, if necessary, who have access to inside information on the pimps and prostitution activities; and seven, collect, analyze, and develop information and intelligence on those who are identified through police investigations as being the main organizers or participants in any unlawful activity, as under section 212 of the Criminal Code.