Thank you, Minister, for coming before the committee today to present the estimates.
I'm looking at the report on plans and priorities, which comes out at roughly the same time as the main estimates. It is a very useful document because it gives a longer-term view as to what the departments, and specifically the Treasury Board Secretariat, are doing.
I'm looking at the four main strategic outcomes you have: management frameworks, people management, expenditure management, and financial management. If we look at the trend from 2011-12 to 2016-17, we see a steady decrease in each strategic outcome in terms of the actuals and the estimates going forward. Could you explain what's going on behind each of these?
If I pick just one, such as expenditure management, it goes from $50.9 million in 2011-12 down to $31.8 million in 2016-17.
What has been the approach of the Treasury Board Secretariat, and why are those estimates going down pretty dramatically?