The major changes in the Treasury Board Secretariat operating expenditures for the supplementary estimates are largely transfers from other departments to support the national employment equity councils and the national managers' community--that's $144,000--and $856,000 to support the financial interoperability and stewardship initiative for financial information systems.
There is also an increase in vote 10 of $875,000 to support the workplace development innovation fund--that's in a central vote--to support deputy ministers to develop leaders in their organizations.
In vote 15 there's a compensation adjustment of $196.4 million, which then gets redistributed to appropriations of departments and agencies. The list of the organizations to which those appropriations are distributed is included in the supplementary estimates. These appropriations are to cover compensation decisions made and agreements signed between August 1, 2009, and December 11, 2009.
There is an increase in vote 30 for pay list requirements of $100 million to supplement other appropriations of departments and agencies for requirements related to parental and maternity allowances, cessation of service, or other employment adjustments. I believe those items were referred to by Madame Bourgeois when she was talking about vote 30 and the pay list.
On the main estimates,
the major changes deal with the secretariat's operating budget further to the change in its structure with the incorporation of the former Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada. The operating budget was increased to officially account for the inclusion of this change, which was made in March 2009 and which can now be found in the main estimates for the Treasury Board Secretariat.
Therefore, there are minor adjustments that take into account the staff increases at Treasury Board concerning salary payments based on collective bargaining.
There are increases and reductions for some central votes. For most of them, you will see the same information as usual, that is, there is no change to vote 5 for government contingencies, vote 25 for operating budget carry-forward or to vote 30, which concerns funding for parental and other types of leave. All this stays the same.
The main change we have made is the elimination of vote 35, which was linked directly to the implementation of economic action plan initiatives, because it is no longer needed. This vote does not appear in the 2010-2011 budgets, because the funding expired, according to the terms and conditions that were approved in 2009-2010.
Those are the main changes that you will find in the main estimates and the supplementary estimates.