Justice committee  All I can say is that the report on plans and priorities is in line with our Treasury Board Secretariat guidelines. They're prepared according to the policies that are given to us, and therefore, what is here actually reflects TBS guidelines and templates.

Justice committee  It is, in part, because spending has gone down, which is largely attributable to reductions in transfer payments, so that's grants and contributions, which don't impact as significantly the FTEs. Our current projection is that the FTE complement will be relatively stable over that three-year period

Justice committee  —within a vote to address operational requirements. The second is that savings normally are reported when there is a reduction in the fiscal framework. For us, when we report savings, it is because there has been a reduction on the draw on the fiscal framework. That said, it's also important to remember that departments are allowed to carry forward and reprofile from one year to the other some unspent amount of their budgets, provided it is done within the limits and the parameters that are given to us.