Evidence of meeting #72 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 cost.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Thank you, sir.
Mr. Giroux, it's wonderful to have you with us. I think you've been with us so much that you've earned a free coffee from us. There's some at the back that you can take on the way.
Ms. Vanderwees, thanks for being with us as well.
Before you leave, you mentioned the SSE report that you did. I'm wondering about that, and then about the report on the CSCs, the Canadian surface combatant frigates, that you did for this committee. Would you be able to update those for us and submit them back to us?
Parliamentary Budget Officer, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
It's something that we can certainly do. It depends on the timelines you have in mind. We could certainly consider that.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Colleagues, is there interest to have those reports updated and tabled when the PBO has them finished? This relates to the SSE report that he just mentioned and the one from 2022 for the frigates' life cycle costs.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
I don't have a specific date. It's just when you can get to it.
NDP
Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC
Mr. Chair, I asked the PBO a question about what it would cost for us to get to parity between mental and physical health in terms of basic mental health supports. Would it be out of order to ask the committee to request the PBO to do an analysis of what it would cost to get there?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Do you want to put some more details into a motion?
We'll do it Monday.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
I think we'll find some time to do it Monday.
Mr. Giroux and Ms. Vanderwees, again, thank you for joining us. You are dismissed.
Colleagues, before we leave, I have a couple of very quick items.
One is that we have to approve the budget for this supplementary estimates (A) exercise. It is minimal, but we still have to do it. Even though we did not spend anywhere close to the budget of $1,250 for the supplementary estimates (A), which is for a working meal and headsets, we need approval for it.
Do I have approval, colleagues?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Then there are the supplementary estimates (A). Does the committee wish to vote on the supplementary estimates (A)?
I see we do. Great.
Shall vote 1a under the Department of Public Works and Government Services carry?
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Vote 1a—Operating expenditures..........$391,170,931
(Vote 1a agreed to on division)
Wonderful.
Shall the chair report vote 1a under the Department of Public Works and Government Services to the House?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Wonderful. That is all, colleagues. Thank you very much.
Mr. Giroux and Ms. Vanderwees, again, thank you very much.
Liberal
Majid Jowhari Liberal Richmond Hill, ON
Mr. Chair, can you give us some insight into the Monday and Wednesday agendas, please?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Sorry; before you leave, colleagues....
We're not adjourned.
Monday will be the departments on McKinsey. We will have a short discussion with our clerk about the McKinsey documents. Wednesday—that's the 21st—we have open, and I think we said we'd do Bill C-290.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
That's always been what the Monday is. We have Wednesday open. We can certainly discuss—
Liberal
Conservative
Liberal
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Monday we have the department heads for the McKinsey documents. That had been bumped from other past meetings and also bumped for one of the Bill C-290 meetings. We'll hear from the department heads on redacting the McKinsey documents this Monday. The witnesses have already been invited.
Wednesday is open. We can do Bill C-290, but it will still be too late. Even if we finish it, it'll be too late to get it to the House in time, but we did, of course, in the vote today, receive the House's approval to add 30 sitting days, so we can finish it in September or October and get it to the House once it has been amended.
