Mr. Serge Dupont at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

Deputy Clerk, Privy Council, Associate Secretary to the Cabinet and Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Privy Council Office

As I mentioned, the Privy Council Office spent $400,000 to support various expenditures related to the general consultations.

In addition, we paid $369,000 for all the work related to the online tool, which includes the report.

We also spent $1.9 million to invite Canadians to take part in this exercise by sending an invitation to their homes in Canada.

And then there were staff-related expenses. All of these efforts were supported by 4.5 FTEs and cost $700,000 altogether.

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