Mr. Bill Matthews at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 24th, 2021. See this statement in context.

March 24th, 2021 / 6:15 p.m.

Deputy Minister, Department of Public Works and Government Services

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I may be dated here, as I'm drawing back on some previous experience. I think some of the taxes exist. We all know that. When you do contracts, you often do...the base amount plus the tax, so we know it's there.

I think, for some reason, some of the confusion is because, when departments are figuring out what vote to charge, the taxes are charged off to a different vote.

I think that's—

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