Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, department officials.
I'm going to pick up where my colleague Mr. McCauley left off and ask for bit more unpacking of that approval process.
As we all know, the Treasury Board of Canada is responsible for approving the terms and conditions for new transfer payments and new programs. Specifically, as of March 20, the Treasury Board's capacity for emerging spending, especially emergency spending.... For example, PSPC went from $15 million to $500 million.
Can I ask you, Mr. Purves, to unpack the whole approval process and shed some light on the fact that some of these policies and spending are evolving? We add $500 here, and a couple of days later we add another thousand for a specific group.
Do these require constant coming back and revisiting, approval, and all of that?