Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question. That comes under TBS vote 30, the paylist requirements. This is specifically for the government to address financial pressures if outstanding collective agreements are concluded. In this case, this deals with the CRA, the Canada Revenue Agency, and Public Service Alliance of Canada, and this is for 25,000 employees.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question. Your question kind of bleeds into how we do fiscal management in the country. With any competing priority, there tends to be a formalized process. For most items, you have policy approvals, which are done by cabinet; a source of funds approvals done by the finance minister along with the Prime Minister; then the implementation, of course, which is usually passed through Treasury Board.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  Great. Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you to the members for inviting us here today to speak about the estimates. Today we have an estimates double-header. I'll be discussing both the final supplementary estimates for 2018-2019 as well as the first estimates for 2019-2020.