Summary of expenses for George C.B. Smith

Period from April 1st, 2009 to June 30, 2009

The Senior Vice-President, Corporate Priorities and Implementation, carries out his duties as an extension to the Office of the President and CEO. This position is dedicated to implementing CBC/Radio-Canada’s priorities across the Corporation, ensuring that the organisation and its employees adapt and are accountable to new priorities and ways of doing things, both organisationally and culturally. He also leads the process of concluding the current labour negotiations.

The Senior Vice-President attends Senior Executive Team meetings five times a year in Toronto, Montréal or Ottawa, and meetings of the Corporation’s Board of Directors six times a year across the country. He also travels for stakeholder events across Canada.

Travel Expenses

Date(s) Purpose(s) Cost(s)
05-07/04/09 Montreal: Meetings re; Next Generation Converged Network Project, Performance evaluation with Hamelin, Laviolette, Denoncourt, Harrison, Saint-Cyr and Quirion $709.88
21-23/04/09 Montreal: Performance evaluation meetings with K. Laviolette, L. St-Germain, M. St-Cyr, Real Estate team, and meetings with D. Oldfield, L, Facchin and H. Lacroix $741.88
29-30/04/09 Toronto: Meetings with Real Estate employees $732.19
14-15/05/09 Montreal: Meetings re: Technology and Real Estate Reviews, meeting with K. Laviolette, Internal Audit meetings re: Technology files $467.50
18-22/05/09 Montreal: Meetings CTO directors, re: directors and managers, MRC project, CTO reorganization and meeting with S. Lafrance $1,233.66
27-28/05/09 Montreal: IT Assets Management meeting, Technology Review, Directors' meetings, meeting with external consultants $560.82
02-05/06/09 Montreal: Meeting with H. Lacroix (Real Estate and Technology Divisions); M. Saint-Cyr retirement dinner: Toronto: Meetings with F. Mattocks and R. Stursberg re: Toronto Project, Real Estate meetings and CTO Task Force Workshop $1,293.32
08-10/06/09 Halifax: Tour of CBC buildings, visit of transmitter site, meetings re: Real Estate $1,009.62
15-18/06/09 Vancouver: Tour of CBC buildings, meeting with outside building consultants, staff meeting: Montreal, CTO Task Force Meeting $1,898.37
24-26/06/09 Montréal: Meetings: Real Estate Directors Meetings, Vision 2 Steering Committee meeting and meeting with external consultants $743.81
28-30/06/09 Toronto: meetings with F. Mattocks, J. Vaughan, R. Carnovale, CTO meeting with external consultant $966.78
Total $10,357.83

Duty Entertainment Expenses

Date(s) Event Description(s) Cost(s)
1/6/2009 Gatineau : Consultative Committee on Staff Benefits (CCSB) Meeting, CBC/Radio-Canada: G. Smith, F. Lewis, M. Poudrier, D. Oldfield, M-P Laurin, J. Turgeon, C. Godin, P. Vincent, C. Bélanger, R. Ouellette, M. Hamelin and external consultant $298.64
4/6/2009 Working Dinner with F. Mattocks, M. Denoncourt, R. Linghor and external consultant re: CTO Task Force $223.74
29/06/2009 Toronto : Dinner Meeting with external consultant re: CTO Task Force $81.77
Total $604.15
GRAND TOTAL $10,961.98

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