I will be asking one or two questions and I will share the rest of my time with Mr. Nadeau.
Please explain this to me. I put the question to the minister and I may not have expressed myself correctly. I have trouble understanding why, in the main estimates, $500 million is allocated for paylist requirements, which are the same amounts found in the 2009-2010 main estimates. However, in the supplementary estimates, the amount of $100 million is requested by the Treasury Board Secretariat. It states that this funding is for severance pay, vacation credits payable upon termination of employment, parental benefits and termination benefits for ministers' exempt staff. I would like you to explain what is meant by ministers' exempt staff.
Second, in the definition of vote 30 under Treasury Board, there is no mention of paylist requirements for ministers' exempt staff.
Are they usually included in vote 30? Those are my questions. Please help me understand.