Thank you very much. Actually, I think there are almost three questions there.
If I could just go back to the information baseline, when we go to page 180 in the budget and we see the way operational spending has been broken out between the amount that's going to be frozen plus other operational spending, we're not familiar with that baseline. In my office, we do not know what's included or what's excluded in terms of the freeze operational amount, and we certainly do not have access to information on how that baseline is broken out by department. If you take the fundamental component that's been set aside in the planning framework on page 180 in the budget, operational freezing, how is it broken out in the estimates by major department? We need that information so we can do our assessment.
Again, I'll go back: we think the measure, the baseline, is ill-defined. Again, it goes back to the strategy. We don't know if it's broadly based or if it's going to be targeted.
Your second point was on the numbers. Yes, based on the data that we do have, the December 31 progress database, the value of work completed was $674 million. That represents about 6.8% of the total program value, which we think could be upwards of $9.8 billion right now, and roughly 33% of the program timeframe has elapsed as of December 31.
Again, we've provided tables for you that show what the planned spending looks like through the course of the year. Certainly for this summer, the summer of 2010, you're looking at outputs of moneys of more than $700 million per month over the summer. That's a lot of spending and that's a lot of infrastructure in this program that needs to go. We will get back to you, sir, in the summertime, with an assessment.
We've already started working on a survey so that we can look at the impact. We think we missed an opportunity to look at the employment and output impact of this program, so we're going to survey municipalities to see what their sense is of the employment and output impact. We'll get back to you in the fall to give you a sense before this program is terminated.
On the last thing, just a point on the office, yes, thanks to this committee and other committees and your support, our budget has been returned, but we're still dealing with some significant HR issues, including people on this panel who have not been put on a permanent basis. For some of these projects we get asked to do, like big policy costing projects, if we can't secure this talent, we won't be able to do these projects.