Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister and your staff, for being here today.
I have a few questions I want to ask, and most of them relate to the estimates and plans and priorities. This first one might be directed more to Mr. Hegge, and then to the minister for more of a general question.
In the main estimates you talk about the program enablers. Roughly 27% of the costs on the base budget for all the different regions and programs are the program enablers.
Mr. Hegge, how is that allocated to the sectors and the agencies, and what's your mechanism for allocating those out?
Minister, how are those developed over time? More specifically, what's the ongoing process to review the effectiveness of these costs on a year-by-year basis?