Foreign Affairs committee  We don't have the budget figure for this year. We're in the process; the fiscal year has just started. As the minister said, we're setting plans for the budget for this year—

Foreign Affairs committee  Global commerce support program.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have that.

Foreign Affairs committee  I will get back to you on that.

Foreign Affairs committee  The Canadian innovation program is a bilateral program we have to support technology and science partnerships with Canada, Korea, China, India, and Israel. What we do is partner small and medium-sized industries between Canada and these countries to spur innovation in those companies.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's correct.

Foreign Affairs committee  This is a program we've had for a number of years. You see the renewal in these main estimates. This funding is for us to work with key partners and allies to slow migrant smuggling, especially in working with authorities in Southeast Asia and West Africa. By providing technical assistance to police forces, and other national organizations abroad, it encourages those local authorities to have the processes they need to have in place to prevent this.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's in local currency. We manage 100 different currencies. In those 170-something missions, we operate in over 100 currencies.

Foreign Affairs committee  What you see in these main estimates is a line that says, “compensation for currency fluctuations at missions abroad”. We work with our colleagues at the Treasury Board Secretariat and Finance Canada to look at the inflationary impacts and the currency impacts in all of those 100 currencies, and we look at what the operating costs are.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, for some of these programs, funding does come from the international assistance envelope. There are strict criteria as to what is counted as official development assistance. We ensure that any spending we report on through our OECD DAC report, and also through the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act report, meets those criteria.

Foreign Affairs committee  This fiscal year is not over, so the best numbers we have are the public accounts for the last fiscal year. In 2014, from the international assistance envelope, the amount was small. Overall, I think, our public accounts lapse for our grants and contributions was about $59 million, and on the development side that's $5 million.

Foreign Affairs committee  That is correct. In the planned spending, there are also certain technical adjustments that we have. Your main estimates don't include, for example, very technical transactions, such as the operating budget carried forward. In our spending plans, we will have an idea or an estimate of what that is and will include that in our planned spending, because it is not appropriated at this time by Parliament.

Foreign Affairs committee  This probably goes back a couple of years, when the departments were amalgamated. We established a new performance alignment architecture with new programs. When we did that, we had certain programs that had ongoing performance metrics. When we did the new performance alignment architecture, we had new activities, where we had to create new performance measures and performance indicators.

Foreign Affairs committee  In budget 2013 there were reductions to the international assistance envelope based on a program review of those. I do have that figure with me, and I will get to it in a second. It was around the $300-million figure overall.

Foreign Affairs committee  These are all separate programs. For example, the Commonwealth Youth Programme supports youth development initiatives in Commonwealth countries and it's designed to enhance the relationship between Canada and Commonwealth countries. The Commonwealth Foundation, for example, has a separate objective, and that's to contribute to civil society and governance within the members of the Commonwealth country.