Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the panel for being here.
Continuing on my quest to understand the relationship between the budget, the main estimates, and the supplementary estimates, let me tackle the first question, which has to do with the Privy Council Office. In budget 2016 we saw an allocation of $49 million that was made to “ensure that the department has the resources required to effectively support the Government’s agenda, as well as to strengthen security and make required investments in lifecycle updates to systems and buildings”.
At this time you're requesting an amount of either $10.8 million in the supplementary estimates, or according to your brief, it seems to be moving numbers to $12.3 million.
I want to understand the relationship between those two or three numbers. How much of the proposed $49 million do you plan to use this year, and how will you use it? Perhaps you can walk us through some of the items, and break down the amounts to the items you listed in your brief.