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Government Operations committee Good morning, Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting the Privy Council Office to review our 2017-18 departmental plan and the 2017-18 main estimates. I'm accompanied today by Ms. Kami Ramcharan, assistant deputy minister, corporate services branch, and chief
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee Thank you for the question. The main difference between what is in the main estimates and what is in the department's plan is the expected expenditure for the commission of inquiry on missing and murdered girls and women. Our expectation is that this funding for $34.1 million wi
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee It's currently being financed within internal resources, and actually, it's more than the planning. For the inquiry, the work has started.
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee I'm not too sure that I can comment on future changes to how the estimates are going to be reformed. In the current system, we would come through the supplementary estimates to seek the funding as decisions are made.
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee The activities in other departments that were targeted to youth continue. Actually, there are youth initiatives in several departments. What PCO is doing in terms of supporting the Prime Minister is a kind of novel thing for PCO. The Prime Minister, as the minister of youth requi
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee Sure. In 2016-17, we got $1.5 million in supplementary estimates (B), and in 2017-18 it's $1.2 million.
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee Last year, through supplementary estimates (A), we sought $1.4 million. As Kami mentioned, our accounts are not closed yet, so I cannot report exactly how much was spent of that $1.4 million.
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee I don't know....
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee Thank you for your question. The funding is to support the advisory—
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee As Kami mentioned, there are vacancies now. There are currently six vacancies. Between now and the end of the fiscal year, we are forecasting four additional vacancies due to normal retirement, so the advisory board will have to provide recommendations to the Prime Minister for s
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee Well, my understanding is that—
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee No, it's not me—
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee I don't know for sure.
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu
Government Operations committee Just to add to that, the inquiry was launched in September. Maybe we could have guessed at how much we were going to spend, but that would have meant coming here with estimates that had not been worked through with the commission itself. Because they serve at arm's length and the
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
Chantal Maheu