The operating money is what we use to do some of our extra research work, beyond what's required for staff. For example, we would use operations money for the indicators project, gender-based analysis, our federal–provincial–territorial work, and our international work, because all of this requires operational funding. That's the way it's normally done. Grants and contributions funding is for the groups. Operational money is what we use to manage within the departmental agency.
On April 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.