Mark Adler at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 25th, 2014. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2014 / 9:20 a.m.

Conservative

Mark Adler Conservative York Centre, ON

Thank you, Chair.

First of all, I want to ask more of a macro question just to kick things off.

Mr. Matthews, I will direct it to you.

The appropriations seem to be down for the third year in a row now. It's about $4 billion from last year roughly. Can you briefly speak to account for that, the decrease in the amount of the appropriation?

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