Thank you, Madam Chair.
My thanks to the witnesses for joining us and for participating in the committee's work on the review of Supplementary Estimates (A).
To prepare for our meeting this morning, I consulted the department's 2014-15 and 2016-17 budgets. I must admit that I was surprised to see that, in 2014-15, a little over $1 billion had not been used. In 2015-16, unused funds amounted to $900 million. That's a lot of money.
We are now in June. I am not telling you anything new when I say that the fiscal year starts on April 1 and ends on March 31. You are asking for additional funds this morning to the tune of about $719 million—actually just over $719,650,000.
Could you tell me what processes are in place to ensure that the department is able to adequately manage the funds being requested so that there is not a huge amount of money left unused at the end of the fiscal year?