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Finance committee No, this is the responsibility of the Treasury Board.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee Well, I don't know if you're referring to the Canada-Ontario agreement again or more generally, but with respect to the Canada-Ontario agreement, what the budget does is show very explicitly how the agreement will be met over these two years, and it makes a general statement about the five-year agreement overall, which would be honoured.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee It's page 159.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee There are no cuts to Environment Canada.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee Yes, there are some programs that will not be followed through. They are included in the $7 billion or so of measures that will not be implemented.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee Well, there is a program that exists already in the fall update providing additional funding for that.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee Yes.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee All I can say is that we would have had to have authority to spend the money. We used Bill C-48 to provide funds--
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee The rest goes to reducing the debt.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee The Kelowna accord was not reflected in the fall update numbers because the accord took place after the update. The funding is coming from the surplus unallocated in the fall update, and at the time we said the surplus would be used to address other priorities, and that's all there was.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee The government indicated what measures would be confirmed and which ones they would not follow through on, and they decided to proceed differently with regard to aboriginal issues.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee It's probably not that much, but--
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee Yes, that was the--
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee If you go to the table 4.2 of the budget plan, we started out with the surplus estimated at $13.4 billion in the fall update.
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe
Finance committee It was estimated at $13.4 billion--
May 10th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul-Henri Lapointe