Good morning, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to talk a little bit about the supplementary estimates (C) for the Treasury Board Secretariat as a department.
There are only two items in supplementary estimates (C). The first one is a very small item for $75,000, and it's a transfer from Industry Canada to the Treasury Board Secretariat for the National Managers' Community. This community was established in 2000 and it's to help managers continue to be effective leaders as the times change. Funding for that program is actually received from 36 different departments, totalling $2.7 million over the year.
The second item we have is the approval of the vote 15 compensation adjustments, for $10.7 million. This is money that is actually within vote 15 and will be allocated to other departments. This is really the adjustments due to the extension of two types of allowances: transitional allowances and terminable allowances. This is not base pay; these are time limited. This is in complete compliance with the budget. Once again, these are not salary increases. This affected such groups as nurses, actuarial scientists, and financial resources within the government. These were very technical resources that received these allowances.
Slide 12 shows what the total estimates of the Treasury Board Secretariat are to date. The Treasury Board Secretariat will end at $252 million for vote 1, and the compensation adjustments will be $10.7 million.
With that I will end my remarks.