Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Harrison, thanks for being here today. I have just a quick question, and because of the lack of time, I ask you to follow up with information to the committee.
It's the second-to-last paragraph in your opening statement, where you talk about the increase of $16.7 million in the operating vote. My first question is this. Can we have this broken down? Unless I've missed it, I don't see a line item of these within the operating expenditures. I will say that it's a significant increase, and we've had real problems with significant increases in departments that are then facing what we're being told would be a freeze next year. The comment is that it's significantly high, so I'm wondering if we can get a line-by-line item of these you've listed out, to see what the $16.7 million accounts for.
Perhaps you can answer in writing to us, in that submission, why part of this is funding for the Canadian securities regulator, when we actually have two separate pieces associated with Canadian securities regulation proposals.
Third is workload in support of the economic action plan and a couple of other things, so my final point is that you say these are time-limited. The economic action plan's huge ramp-up was last year, so I'm not sure why there has to be an increase in the workload associated with it this year. Could you address that in your answers? I would have thought you'd at least have the same, given that the heavy ramp-up was last year.
If these are indeed time-limited and these departments are facing a freeze next year, can we get a commitment that, because these are time-limited, the freeze—the budget that's actually frozen next year—will in fact be $16.7 million less?
I believe you can respond in writing. I know it's difficult, but we're so short of time in this environment that I don't want to take away from my colleague.