Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to get back to the subject of the estimates. I know Shared Services Canada hasn't been around a long time, but I always appreciate looking at the departmental performance reports, which came out at the same time as the supplementary estimates (B). You were formed in 2011, and I'm looking at the departmental performance summary table, which is on page 12 of the English version. It shows a ramp up in actual spending from $622 million, in 2011-12, to $1.38 billion in the following year. In the planned spending for 2013-14, you're planning to go up again, and then we start to see a decrease in spending.
At the same time, though, I notice that the actual spending for 2012-13 was considerably less than the planned spending that would have been approved in the estimates, a difference of almost $100 million, from $1.47 billion, which was planned, and the actual spending came in at $1.38 billion. So actually it's more than $100 million. Can I infer that the planned spending will be replanned or adjusted further downwards, that we'll see even further savings? Part of that question is, what is the baseline? Given that you're ramping up and then starting to take costs out, if you look at pre-Shared Services Canada, before the formation of Shared Services Canada, did you ever have a chance to measure the overall spending in all of these 43 client departments? So how is the new level of performance different from what it was before the formation of Shared Services Canada?