Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here again today to discuss some of the mechanics and some of the alterations to the budget as we go forward.
As you can appreciate, a budget is a living document, so things change. Things have to be assessed and things have to be modified accordingly, and of course your job is to look forward. The Auditor General looks at what has happened in the past; you're trying to assess what decisions are being made and how they can affect us going forward. It's an important task and very important work that you do as a result.
There are lots of discussions about the big items that you have in your report. National defence, FTEs, indigenous communities, social programs and interest on debt are all major items, I believe, that you highlighted as being issues that have changed or maybe have been increasing.
However, you also have lots of frozen allotments. You have realignments of previous spending and how we're refocusing spending to deliver to Canadians. I think you broke it down into those two sections.
Before I get into the items that are affecting some of the changes as a result of the increases, can you reaffirm what the frozen allotments are? What realignment of parts of government is taking place to offset some of these issues?