Government Operations committee  I will ask Jason. It's his word, oeuvre found its way into the report, this sclerotic word. Jason, you can....

Government Operations committee  —for the other side. The reason is that the national finance Senate committee decided to monitor the infrastructure closely. We do a lot of work. We monitor the infrastructure. We have appeared very regularly. We are invited on a regular basis to help them control...because they

Government Operations committee  All members of Parliament, from the House of Commons or the Senate, individually can ask us questions about the costing or the estimates. Basically those are the questions they have. The four committees that I mentioned initially, including yours now, in addition to costing a pro

Government Operations committee  We have $500,000 for the election platforms in terms of support and analysis, and also in terms of what we will need. It's going to be very intense. People already know that. There will be no vacation during summer 2019.

Government Operations committee  We won't be at barbeques.

Government Operations committee  We have a reserve of $500,000 that we plan. Again, this is something new for everybody so we don't know if we will need it. But it's a one shot deal in 2019-20 and the speakers agreed and understood. The two speakers, because we submitted our request to the two speakers, said yes

Government Operations committee  Mostafa? Let's start with the optimist and then go to the realistic views on this. We have different views, but Mostafa will talk about it.

Government Operations committee  Everything has to be confidential because it's during the election. We did a tour of all political parties. We met all of them, the leaders and the chiefs of staff, with our guidelines on how we will operate during the electoral period, and one thing that we heard very often...we

Government Operations committee  Not the independent senators, the independent members. You mean in terms of the senators themselves?

Government Operations committee  It's probably because they have less research capacity. A good example is that we are contributing a lot on infrastructure for the Senate side right now—

Government Operations committee  Jason, do you want to talk about it? It's your favourite topic.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. It's an excellent question because in the legislation, when Parliament is dissolved, so they're in the writ period, even before that. The legislation is clear. The PBO can ask the minister to direct his deputy minister of any departments or agencies to

Government Operations committee  The upcoming year of 2018-19 and the following one of 2019-20 are not typical years, because 2019-20 will, as you know, be an election year. Ongoing after the election, we plan to have a $6.5 million budget excluding EBP, the employee benefits plan. It's voted, and it's going to

Government Operations committee  For the election? We believe it will be. That includes, of course, additional capacity for translation, editing, and so on, and also access to information because it's going to be imperative to have quick access to information that year. On that basis, we are signing some MOUs w

Government Operations committee  After an election year?