For the operating budget carry forward, the current method is to use 5% of the operating budget established in the main estimates as a department maximum. So if you have a vote 1, operating expenditures, that is $100 million, then your maximum that you could carry forward into next fiscal year would be $5 million. So, for example, if that was last year into this year, this year we would allocate up to $5 million, based on what you actually lapsed. Again, using from last year to this year as an example, most departments lapsed right around 5%. So if you were the department that lapsed $4.5 million, then you would get that. If you lapsed $6 million, you would still only get $5 million. So it's 5% of your main estimates' operating budget.
On November 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.