Jean-Yves Roy at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2009 / 11:45 a.m.

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Jean-Yves Roy Bloc Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

One of the requests in the supplementary estimates concerns the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency. This is a budget increase of 24.3%. What disaster has occurred for you to have to increase the agency's budget by 24%?

I don't know, but there must have been a problem in the planning or forecasts. Clearly, you can't request a 24% increase without there being a problem somewhere.

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