Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  I'll take an opportunity to respond to the question, Mr. Chair. Budget 2016 would have identified money associated with doing this initiative for the PCO. In terms of developing the initiative, what we do is develop a Treasury Board submission to seek funds for it. We didn't dev

Government Operations committee  The budget document gives us the opportunity to say that we think we're going to spend a certain amount of money in this area. The Treasury Board submission brings it down into finer detail of what we're going to do. Typically, the department throughout the year has enough money

Government Operations committee  Yes, the $3.8 million for the entire year is the forecasted expenditure. We won't know the exact amount until the end of the fiscal year—we still have about four weeks to go until then—but that's the estimate for what we generally expect we're going to spend.

Government Operations committee  What I could suggest is that in our departmental report for last year we were talking about getting ready for the eventual move to the extended data centres that Shared Services Canada is developing. That's why it's not done right away. We have to look at all our applications, lo

Government Operations committee  I think that has changed. I don't think we're going to be able to get there by November 2017, but we're trying to do the best we can.

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely.

Government Operations committee  If I recall correctly, the amount that was sought in budget 2016 for this initiative was going to be over a four-year term. What we provided for initially in our Treasury Board submission was before we would have known the results of the conversations with regard to democratic re

Government Operations committee  There is. Unfortunately I don't have the details with me, but I can definitely get back to the committee.

Government Operations committee  Sure.

Government Operations committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, I will respond to that question. We haven't quite closed all our books yet, but we're looking at roughly between $3.5 million and $4 million in terms of spending in 2016-17. Initially, the expectation at that point in time was that because we didn't get our

Government Operations committee  We would have gotten resources in through estimates (A), (B), and (C), so we—

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  It was roughly around $3.5 million to $4 million.

Government Operations committee  Yes, from other program funding that we would have received throughout the year, or A-base resources that we wouldn't have spent.