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National Defence committee  Thank you, Steve. Thank you for inviting me today. In the report The Cost of 9/11, which came out in September of last year, I looked at the growing costs not only of defence spending but also of other security programs and public safety programs since 9/11. Some of those prog

February 9th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

National Defence committee  Expenditures for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, looked at as a proxy for diplomacy, have increased less rapidly than expenditures for the Department of National Defence. As everyone knows, the aid budget is now frozen at $5 billion a year. I don't have

February 9th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

National Defence committee  I think your submission to the alternative federal budget this year was a goal of approximately $15 billion.

February 9th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

National Defence committee  That's right.

February 9th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the invitation today. I hope I can make a dry topic like estimates somewhat more interesting at three o'clock in the afternoon. I will make a brief presentation and some recommendations for your consideration. I will open the floor, as you suggest, Mr. M

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  That's right. In “The Cuts Behind the Curtain”, I argue that there have been three waves of cutbacks or evaluations of programs: the 2007 through 2010 strategic review, the 2010 operating budget freeze, and the 2011 strategic and operating review, which is the $4 billion to $8 b

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. As I wrote this report and started to see how these different pieces of the future estimates came together, I thought it was important that they be tied together better. In terms of my recommendations, I was looking specifically at some of the future

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  One of the important changes that could be included in the main estimates, which is partially included in the RPPs, is much better accounting down to the program level and actual projects and determining how those projects change over time. For instance, taking a look at HRSDC,

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  When it comes to the main estimates on the expenditure side, if MPs were given a full list of what that was buying in each department and the historical context of how it's changing—how many people are being employed and why it's changing—this committee and others could ask much

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  That's right. They're included in the supplementary estimates.

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  I didn't look at them extensively—

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  I have looked at that aspect in the past, absolutely, but not in this particular report.

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

Government Operations committee  The calendar shift seems like an interesting suggestion. It would certainly be more interesting to see the mains reflect the budgetary changes than to wait throughout the year for the supplementals to update what's actually happening. The reports on plans and priorities estimat

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

David Macdonald