Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good morning, all.
My question would be to either person who feels comfortable answering. Like a number of new members here, I'm getting my head around the entire process, so I'm not going to the overall concept here. I just want to cherry-pick a couple of items that jumped out at me at this particular time and ask for your thoughts.
In the context of a couple of hundred billion dollars, millions here or there appear to be puny and insignificant. But millions of dollars are still millions of dollars. I see one instance where we've set an arbitrary role of $5 million for expenditures that go through the different processes and don't need to have the necessary scrutiny. I'm wondering, why $5 million, and not $3 million or $10 million? That's one thought.
The second question is how many times was this used, and what percentage of total expenditure might this be? In other words, is this an occasional blip, or is there something more to this? Is a fair bit of spending consistently handled that way?