Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, if you allow me the time, I have all the background. I can give you all the information right now. I have it. There is a press release that's being made public that details the whole content, the criteria of the program. I think this is public knowledge and I will be happy to share that with you.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, good morning. My name is Alex Lakroni and I am the Chief Financial Officer at Public Works and Government Services Canada. With me is John McBain, Assistant Deputy Minister of Real Property Branch. We are pleased to be here today as part of your review of the supplementary estimates (B) that were tabled on November 4.

Government Operations committee  From our operating budgets of $3.4 billion, we have a salary budget of about $1 billion. When we apply the freeze, that leads to an amount of about $8.7 million.

Government Operations committee  I will provide you with an explanation and then the number. On $3.4 billion of operating budget, there is a salary envelope of about $1 billion—$1.080 billion. When we account—this is again an estimate, because the amount has not yet been confirmed to us officially—give or take, we're looking at a freeze of about $8.7 million.

Government Operations committee  I don't think the operating budget is $6.3 billion.

Government Operations committee  Okay. The $6.3 billion is various components. As Mr. Treusch explained, the special allotments that are for non-discretionary expenditures are excluded from the freeze. For instance, all the money for the economic action plan--

Government Operations committee  I have to go back to the basics of the budget. A big chunk of our budget is for non-discretionary expenditures. The government decision is that those non-discretionary expenditures are to be excluded from the freeze. In addition to that, we have other expenditures that are revenue-dependent.