Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm glad to have the opportunity to continue where I left off, actually. I'm still not satisfied that I understand what seems to be a shell game of shuffling around budgets here. I opened my remarks before by saying that there has been a disturbing pattern that more and more expenditures seem to be in the statutory category and not voted.
Let me just back up here and say that under the office of Infrastructure Canada there has been a decrease of $2.5 billion from votable issues to statutory, that shift.
Now when all of this was transferred to the PCO, why would there not be a corresponding amount of money showing up in the statutory or votable items of the PCO? We seem to have lost track of that money or lost oversight of that money.
This is a big ticket item, and it worries me that under the same minister—I mean, the president of the Privy Council is the same person as the Minister of Infrastructure—this $2.5 billion that we used to be able to vote on is now shifted neatly out of the purview of public oversight.
Am I reading this right?