Scott Armstrong at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On June 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.

June 14th, 2011 / 5:05 p.m.

Conservative

Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS

Thank you.

I have three quick questions, and I want to go back to the carry-over first.

We learned today, and Mr. Martin actually confirmed it, that most federal departments, if not the rest of the federal departments, are allowed a 5% carry-over at the end of their budget year. We found out today that the Department of National Defence is only allowed a 2.5% carry-over. I think that's been increased in the last couple years from 1.5% or thereabouts, in that range.

We haven't heard a justification for this. Why is your carry-over percentage half of what it is for the other departments?

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