Mr. Bill Matthews at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.

November 26th, 2013 / 4:55 p.m.

Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

I'd say partially right.

There are unpredictable things. The flooding is a great example of an unpredictable thing. There are also things that simply were planned in the announced budget but the spending plan of the department wasn't ready in time to make it into main estimates.

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