Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee, for the opportunity to be here today. My colleague Marie-Geneviève Mounier and I, Bayla Kolk, are the two ADMs of the labour program. Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you about our mandate, our activities, and the scope of our program.
We're going to take you through a short presentation. I believe you have all received it. We'll take the time to give you key facts, and then we will be prepared to answer your questions and have a good discussion with you.
The labour program is part of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. We're one of three strategic business lines, along with HRSD and Service Canada, but uniquely, the labour program has its own minister, Minister Lisa Raitt, and its own deputy minister, Madame Hélène Gosselin.
On page three you have a picture of our annual budgets: in the main estimates for 2011-12, $179.8 million; a gross operating budget of $24.5 million, with approximately $58.5 million administered in statutory funding; and revenues credited to the vote amounting to $127.2 million.
That's a little complicated. Our revenues come from the government employment compensation act. Our transfer payments go to the wage earner protection program, with a small amount for grants and contributions. But we'd be happy to come back to that.