Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you for coming in this morning.
I'm looking at the report on plans and priorities. We're in the business of supply today; we want to approve some estimates for the 2013-14 fiscal year, but I find that the report on plans and priorities is a more useful document if we're trying to ask strategic questions, in a sense. We can view three years back and three years forward.
Looking at the total reductions in Privy Council Office spending, we see 2010-11 at $160 million and a steady trend going up to 2015-16 at $119 million; these are nominal dollars, too. It's a pretty significant trend.
The lion's share of those reductions across that six-year period is really internal services, item 1.5, where I see spending going from $55.7 million in 2010-11 all the way down to $37.9 million in 2015-16. I want to understand something about the internal services. To what extent are some of those expenditures migrating to Shared Services Canada, for example? Does that mean there'll be some increase in expenses somewhere else within the overall function of government?