Industry committee  It depends upon whether a memorandum to cabinet is also required and upon some policy decisions regarding the items. There are various steps in the process.

Industry committee  In looking at the 2.5% change in our operating vote, about 88% of it relates to what we have as a funding model within Industry Canada, where part of our resources comes from repayable contributions. For the strategic aerospace and defence initiative, for example, some of the r

Industry committee  They're not a carry-over. Within the contributions that are made originally, certain portions are repaid to the Government of Canada, and a portion of those can be used to further support the program in future years.

Industry committee  That is correct. What you see in supplementary estimates, actually, if we go to page 122 and look at vote 10, which is our grants and contributions vote, is a payment of $39.8 million. This relates to the repayment from the previous year, for repayments that were made up to and

Industry committee  That's correct.

Industry committee  It will vary from year to year.

Industry committee  Hopefully it will not be.

Industry committee  It's part of a program.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  A portion of it will come back—there are certain limits—to fund the program itself and the rest of it will go back to general revenues.

Public Accounts committee  One of the elements we've worked on is what the deputy minister at Transport talked about, which is something technical called the program activity architecture. That's his foundation for reporting. We have worked on making sure that we have a clear description of what program ac

Public Accounts committee  In the report there are several areas.

Public Accounts committee  There are several indicators in declining.... Above and beyond the particular online report, we have a number of other lower-level indicators available online, which we have more attribution on and where we're improving or declining in about 25% of the cases overall. We say where

Public Accounts committee  Merci. If we look at page 8, at planned spending, we can see that planned spending is done when we do the departmental performance report; it's based on the RPP. We do the report on plans and priorities and the cut-off at that particular point in time of what's known, based on m

Public Accounts committee  Ron Parker will answer.