Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to our officials to this committee. I had the privilege of serving on the government operations and estimates committee and I know one of my colleagues along the way did too. I feel that it was an important committee to sit on as you gained a fairly good understanding of the whole budgeting process and why it's important for committees to look at the supplementary estimates and ask questions, not only of the minister, but of the department.
Even though I sat on that committee for two years and we studied how to improve the process and the information that MPs received, I still look at these estimates and sometimes I'm confused by what I'm looking at.
What I am wanting to have you clarify for me is the transfers to other organizations. I know there are transfers that can come from organizations and then go to organizations and that sometimes they're the same, that we could have something coming in from Aboriginal Affairs and perhaps going out. That may not be the best example, but I'm specifically looking at the transfer to Shared Services Canada to provide support to departmental staff located at missions abroad. I'm curious to know what's that for?