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Stream 1: Policies Today for the Advancement
of Tomorrow
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to Real Property Management: Aboriginal Context – Putting
it into Practice
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John
Crook, Senior Policy
Analyst, Acquired Services and Assets
Sector, Office of the Comptroller
General, Treasury Board of Canada,
Secretariat
Nancy Shaver, Senior Real Property
Advisor, Real Property Management Directorate,
Department of National Defence
This session will provide the context
and approaches to best practices for
federal real property practitioners and
managers who have legal obligations or
practical reasons to consult with Aboriginal
groups during the lifecycle management
of federal properties. From the property
managers’ perspective, the TB Guide
accompanies and complements the Aboriginal
Consultation and Accommodation: Interim
Guidelines for Federal Officials to Fulfill
the Legal Duty to Consult, which were
released in 2008 under Canada Action
Plan on Aboriginal Consultation and Accommodation.
Further, this session will look into
how departments are putting the guide
into practice as their real property
professionals on the frontlines incorporate
it into the planning, acquisition, operation/maintenance
and disposal of federal real property.
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| Capacity-Based
Real Property Transaction Approval Limits
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Lynn Kinney-Barton,
Principal Analyst, Real Property and
Materiel Policy Division, Acquired
Services and Assets Sector, Treasury
Board of Canada, Secretariat
Joseph Knowles, Policy Analyst, Real
Property and Materiel Policy Division,
Acquired Services and Assets Sector,
Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat
A review of special real property transaction
approval limits and requests to Treasury
Board of Canada, Secretariat (TBS) for
real property transaction approvals indicates
that operational efficiencies could be
gained if limits would be adjusted based
on departments’ operational needs
and capacity. In order to transition
to capacity-based real property transaction
approval limits, TBS has worked with
an interdepartmental working group over
the past year to establish an approach
and tools to help departments seek real
property limits to support their operational
needs. The session will discuss how department
can seek capacity-based limits and proposed
changes to the policy on management of
real property.
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| Transport
Canada’s GIS Application
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Stephen Hamilton, Manager, Real Property,
Authorities Management and Real Property,
Transport Canada
Transport Canada is a major custodian
of federal real property. Information
relating to its real property portfolio
is held in a web-based geographic information
system (GIS) application called the
Environment Information System (EIS).
The EIS informs decision makers by
spatially integrating real property
information with environmental information.
For many years Transport Canada has
been manually geo-referencing its real
property title information. Recently,
the department coupled these textual
and spatial datasets using GIS software.
This innovation has not only geo-referenced
Transport Canada property but it has
also enabled spatial integration between
real property and environmental datasets.
The presentation will show how Transport
Canada employees use the EIS to quickly
obtain information they need to make
better decisions. Participants will
see how the EIS search functions and
spatial visualization capabilities
make it easy to locate properties of
interest, map them, confirm ownership
and determine if there are any contaminants
on the site.
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| From
Pilot to Sustainment: Lessons Learned Implementing the
Policies on Investment Planning and on the Management
of Projects
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Kelly Campbell, Principal, Interis
Consulting
Ruth Brady, Director Strategic
Investment, Strategic Investment
and Project Management
Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
In 2007, Treasury Board of Canada,
Secretariat introduced two new policies:
the Policy on Investment Planning and
the Policy on the Management of Projects.
The introduction of these policies
is driving organizations to reflect
and rethink the way in which they identify
investments in assets and acquired
services as well as how scarce resources
are allocated to ensure they provide
proper value to the organization. These
policies are also driving organizations
to increase their capability with respect
to project management. In this session,
participants will gain an understanding
of the policy requirements as they
apply to real property as well as the
potential challenges and critical success
factors to be aware of during implementation.
Participants will be presented with
tips for defining an effective investment
governance framework for increasing
departmental performance. With a significant
asset base with a net book value in
excess of $1.6B (22,759 assets), the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
was one of four pilot departments that
implemented the policies in March 2009.
Participants will hear about the RCMP’s
experience implementing changes necessary
for policy compliance as well as the
continued work post-compliance within
the department to make investment planning
and project management sustainable
and, ultimately, to improve departmental
performance.
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| Construction
and Remediation Project Implementation in DND – Not
better, Not Worse, Just Slightly Different
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Colonel J.S. Sirois, CD, P. Eng.,
Director General Military Engineering,
Department of National Defence
The Department of National Defence
(DND) undertakes several construction
and environmental remediation projects
every year. Unlike other federal departments,
DND typically does not use Public Works
and Government Services Canada to deliver
them, except for a very few. DND has
also institutionalized a separation
between the user group and the delivery
mechanism. Another quirk is the “federated” model
of project implementation throughout
DND. The presentation will illustrate
how DND delivers its construction and
environmental remediation projects
from national strategy, to portfolio
management, to investment planning.
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