Mr. Bill Matthews at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 14th, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 14th, 2012 / 5:05 p.m.

Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

I'll let my colleague from Finance comment in a moment.

The budgets could make changes to statutory programs, but if they are status quo.... I guess by leaving them status quo, the budget in fact has looked at them. But there is no committee that I'm aware of that studies statutory spending.

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