Thank you very much, Chair.
When I read the Supplementary Estimates, one of the questions that most often comes to mind is: why weren’t these funds foreseeable? In other words, why weren’t they part of the Main Estimates?
Sometimes, too, I literally wonder what certain funds correspond to. For example, in the Supplementary Estimates, I see that some funds are for critical operating requirements. For the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board, those funds amount to $3,748,724; for the Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat, they amount to $1,428,839; for the Treasury Board Secretariat, they amount to $11,873,293.
What are these critical operating requirements? Why weren’t they foreseen in the Main Estimates?