Mr. Matthew Shea at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 8th, 2018. See this statement in context.

November 8th, 2018 / 4:10 p.m.

Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services, Privy Council Office

I will just explain. Generally, from a budgeting perspective, what's in the departmental plan is approved funding. We can't say that we think we need more money and then go ahead and put that in the departmental plan. That's just not the process. We knew—

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