Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's always a pleasure.

Transport committee  Yes, it's very concrete.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  First of all, you are correct that the infrastructure spending, especially in the last five or six years, has grown. It was after a long period of not that much expenditure in the infrastructure, so this, as well as things like the economic action plan, gave a big bump in terms of the structured spending.

Transport committee  Thank you, sir, for the question. I also clarified that $1.9 million of the $8 million went to Shared Services Canada, the IT resources--

Transport committee  --and $4.1 million went to streamlining administrative functions. My notes say that $1.1 million is in miscellaneous changes. Maybe the assistant deputy minister responsible can elaborate further, if you wish.

Transport committee  You have the departmental officials, so we'll be happy to answer. In terms of Gaspé as well as Vancouver, VIA has shut down the service because of safety concerns and the state of the track. We have received requests for funding from Vancouver, but we haven't from Gaspé. The province asked for a study to be done in Vancouver, and I think that's in progress right now.

Transport committee  In last year's budget the government announced that we will be doing a consultation process and a long-term planned development process for the future of infrastructure. This was three years ahead of the sunsetting of all the programs in 2014. This gives us the opportunity to work with all our partners to determine the future needs of the country and what can be done to meet them.

Transport committee  Following the reporting of the rail service review panel, the minister asked Mr. Dinning to facilitate this process. He has been meeting with the shippers as well as the railways. This is an area where there are usually different.... It's a relatively contentious area. I would say Mr.

Transport committee  Sure. Thank you very much for the question. Let me go through them one at a time. In terms of minor cuts to road safety and to rail, there is a new organization that was created in the federal government: Shared Services Canada. Basically all of our IT, our computer activities, went to that organization.

Transport committee  Parts of it. I'll give you the numbers. Every group in the department that has IT activities we sent to Shared Services Canada. It got transferred. So with road safety, for example, this is the majority of the amount. Regarding rail, there was some economic action plan money there.

Transport committee  On operating, it's an $8 million reduction. Close to $2 million went to Shared Services Canada with the IT resources, and $4.1 million was as a result of administrative system streamlining. Basically we're trying to do our jobs better by organizing that. In terms of capital, they have an increase for King Air.

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It is such a great honour for me to be here. Mr. Lebel has already introduced our team, but I wanted to introduce Natasha Rascanin, the new Assistant Deputy Minister for the Program Operations Branch at Infrastructure Canada, and Mr. McDonald, Ms.

Transport committee  There's money left in the provincial-territorial base for Ontario, but I can't give you any more of an update than that the money is there.