Thanks very much, Chair.
Thank you to everyone for being here today and for your work every day on behalf of Canadians and the recent work you've been doing in a number of different areas, including on the most recent budget. Thank you for that.
I'd like to start by saying, as a continuation of the discussion that was just had about the 3%, that I had the opportunity as a member of the Ontario legislature to sit on the Treasury Board of the Government of Ontario, and we went through an exercise of trying to refocus spending. We may have called it something slightly different, but it sounds very similar to what's in this budget and these estimates.
Prior to that, I used to work for a company called Boston Consulting Group. I worked with companies that were trying to do something similar in the private sector. I know how challenging that can be.
Notwithstanding those challenges and notwithstanding the sum of money involved that you've spoken to and how important it is to our fiscal plan, I have great confidence in your ability to deliver on that. I'm looking forward to seeing you deliver against it. I just wanted to express that.
I want to ask about the net increase. I think I heard in the opening remarks mention of the fact that the net increase in the statutory budgetary expenditures is “mainly due to...legislated increases in major transfers to other levels of government”. In other words, when we say “legislated increases”, we mean increases have been passed by members of the House of Commons.
Could you provide us with a list of these transfers and the increases to each of them?