Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to our witnesses.
This is a bit rude of me, but I have a TV commitment in about two minutes, so what I'd like to do is ask a few questions and then rudely leave, probably before you give all the answers. But then I can read your answers in the transcripts.
I have questions in two areas, first on the expenditure of $1.1 million in the Public Appointments Commission Secretariat. To my knowledge, that was brought into being by the Federal Accountability Act five years ago or so but has never been staffed. I don't understand why we're spending $1.1 million on something that doesn't seem to be functioning, unless I have something wrong there.
My second set of questions is about another $1.1 million, and this is in the strategic review savings for PCO. My first question on this is that you seem to be saying on page 117 that you saved that $1.1 million, but then you're putting it back into other areas of PCO and effectively spending what you saved, which didn't seem to be the purpose of the exercise. Secondly, I think you were due in the budget to find $2 million of savings, so are you going to find the extra $900,000? Finally, are we going to receive information in some detail on what programs or functions have been eliminated or cut to achieve these savings?
Those are my questions. I regret that I have to leave. My apologies.