Canadian Heritage committee  No.

Canadian Heritage committee  No guess....

Canadian Heritage committee  The funding comes from a series of programs, as Ms. Swords mentioned, so it would be a part of the funding from the different programs. For example, we mentioned commemorate Canada. It has a budget of about $3.25 million and some portion of that will be provided for the commemor

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it would be included in their budgets.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. As noted earlier, a total of $500 million is being provided by the Government of Canada for the Pan Am Games. Of that $500 million, $377.1 million is for sport infrastructure, so when you see an increase in the budget of $71.6 million, essentially the amount being pr

Government Operations committee  That is correct. It may be a question of timing. It depends on the time the money was spent, but there were no changes to the budget like…

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Braid. When you look at how much the department is going to be spending, you have to look at the main estimates and the supplementary estimates, the authorities that are given to us during the year, as well. In supplementary estimates (A), we received

Government Operations committee  Yes, that's essentially it. Without trying to get too technical, the reductions, in the first part as you see in the upper part of the table, are applied against the funding that we receive. The funding that we receive is primarily—almost exclusively—vote 5 money, grants and cont

Government Operations committee  The reductions were actually intended to come out of operating. Essentially, the money was offset against our vote 5, and then an adjustment was made to transfer it to vote 1, because they're operating reductions.

Government Operations committee  No. That's the $10 million.

Government Operations committee  It came out of vote 1.

Government Operations committee  I do not think I really have anything to add. It is often just a question of making sure that we have gathered together everything we need to conclude a contribution agreement with a recipient before going to Treasury Board to ask for the money.

Government Operations committee  The total cost is approximately $1 million. There will be 16 positions in that secretariat.