Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, and to your team for being with us today.
You mentioned in your opening statement that the Department of National Defence is not seeking any new money and that in fact you will see a decrease of approximately $15.7 million in spending authorities for the current fiscal year in the supplementary estimates. Given the fiscal context, and given our efforts to balance the budget, those are very important facts for us on this committee and for Canadians.
However, there are a series of transfers taking place between departments to National Defence, and some internal reallocations. The latter you mentioned in your remarks and answers to Mr. Harris. Would you be able to explain in more detail what some of the transfers among departments are and if there are any other reallocations within the department that you didn't get a chance to mention earlier?