Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our guests for being here today.
I really appreciate the associate deputy minister's explanation of how things actually work, where the direction is given to the departments on what numbers we need to achieve, but it's the departments who make the recommendations to the minister, he or she, on what programs need to change, where there are savings possibilities, and they bring that to cabinet for approval. It's not a top-down approach, but the management of government that brings forward the concept, the idea, as we set the direction. I really appreciate that explanation, which I've used many times at public meetings in my own riding.
I have a question about the actual estimates book that we have. Shared Services Canada is new; it keeps getting transfers from all the departments to fund it. Should I anticipate that this will continue, or are they getting their own money and the transfers will stop from departments? Are we going to still allocate it to departments for them to transfer over to Shared Services through these books, or will they get their own funding line?