Organization Profile - Defence Construction (1951) Limited

Defence Construction Canada

Minister of Public Services and Procurement

Defence Construction (1951) Limited provides a wide variety of property-related services to support the Department of National Defence in the management of its facilities' infrastructure needs.

Ottawa, Ontario

Financial Administration Act

The President and Chief Executive Officer is appointed by the Governor in Council to hold office during pleasure for such term as the Governor in Council may determine.

The Board of Directors is comprised of six directors, including the Chairperson.

The Chairperson is appointed by the Governor in Council to hold office during pleasure for such term as the Governor in Council may determine. Each director shall be appointed by the Minister with the approval of the Governor in Council to hold office during pleasure for such term not exceeding four years as will ensure as far as possible the expiration in any one year of the terms of not more than one half of the directors. A director is eligible for reappointment.

No officer or employee of a Crown corporation or any of its affiliates, other than the chief executive officer of the parent Crown corporation, shall be a director of the parent Crown corporation.

If a director is not appointed to take office on the expiration of the term of an incumbent director, other than an officer-director, the incumbent director continues in office until a successor is appointed.

The Financial Administration Act requires that before an officer-director of a parent Crown corporation is appointed, the Minister shall consult the Board of Directors of the Corporation with respect to the appointment.

Two directors (s.9 of By-Law No. 1)

By virtue of the Defence Production Act, the Auditor General is the auditor of the Corporation.