Evidence of meeting #40 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was departments.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Wonderful.
Colleagues, thank you for agreeing to work through the bells.
Seeing as we have about three minutes, I'm going to exercise the chair's prerogative and ask a couple of questions myself.
Ms. Boudreau, I want to get to the DRRs. You sent out a letter in May, advising a November 1 submission. In May, the template was provided in advance for departments to use. The tabling date was November 21. I'm curious why a letter you sent out in May apparently has not been followed. A template was sent out, and yet you seem to indicate that departments have not used the proper template.
Could you provide us with that, but also provide us—I realize we won't have the time today—in writing which departments still have not submitted their DRRs?
Our primary role, as parliamentarians, is to vote on spending. Frankly, I'm aghast at the fact that we're being asked to vote on issues when we still have not received last year's results. This is an ongoing problem.
Why is this happening?
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Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat
Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the questions.
You are correct. In the email you referred to, those were tentative dates. I obviously cannot confirm a tabling date, so—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
That's right, but you provided the template in advance and you're saying some departments did not use the template. You're using that as an excuse. You've also stated that some departments have not submitted their information to you yet.
Would you please provide us in writing which departments, at this date, three weeks past the cut-off date, haven't provided it to TBS?
You said you've provided a template for the departments. Would you provide in writing to the committee which departments are not using that template or why we're still having template issues seven months after your note from May?
I think that is our time, colleagues.
Again, witnesses, thank you very much for appearing with us.
Colleagues, again, thank you for agreeing to work through the bells.
We are adjourned.
