Government Operations committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting the Privy Council Office, PCO, to review our 2017-18 Supplementary Estimates (C) and our 2018-19 Interim Estimates. My name is Matthew Shea, and I have been the new Chief Financial Officer of PCO since

Government Operations committee  I know I mentioned a lot of numbers in my opening remarks. The $1.8 million you referenced is for the current fiscal year; it is part of the budget 2017 announcement of $3.6 million over three years for the establishment of the LGBTQ2 secretariat and $3.1 million over three yea

Government Operations committee  When we do Treasury Board submissions, we estimate the cost we need, and we do a thorough costing. To the best of our ability, we make sure that there are enough funds available. The funding that we've requested though supplementary estimates (C) we believe is enough funding to

Government Operations committee  We have already started work on setting up that secretariat. That secretariat is staffed right now. We're already doing work with a number of departments. It's important to remember that the PCO's role in this as the centre of expertise is providing that expertise to other depa

Government Operations committee  The centre of expertise would work with the department and would come up with ideas at the program creation stage to look at innovative ways we could do this and ways we can incentivize outcomes. Really, this is about moving from processes and outcomes to really trying to find

Government Operations committee  Within our intelligence branch, we have a training program that's used by other government departments, and we cost recover. They pay a cost for using the training, and we recover that.

Government Operations committee  It's a cost recovery from departments. We get the funding, and we centrally do the training for the other departments. We get revenue from them. This is in keeping with what a number of departments do that provide services to other government departments.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair—

Government Operations committee  I feel comfortable answering part of the question.

Government Operations committee  The Government of Canada is committing to do what it takes to ensure employees—

Government Operations committee  PCO has two roles. There's public service leadership and then we ourselves are a department. From a public service leadership perspective, there's a number of DM-level committees that exist.

Government Operations committee  There's a DM-level committee, which meets on pay issues, that is chaired by the deputy clerk of the Privy Council. That is one of the pieces that has been done. In addition, in the fall, the Clerk of the Privy Council wrote all deputies and asked them to articulate exactly what

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, repeating a little bit of what I said, PCO's role in this is to provide public sector leadership for all departments. Also to provide advice to the Prime Minister. However, PSPC has leadership when it comes to the actual Phoenix system as well as delivering pay servi

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair—

Government Operations committee  In PCO's role, PCO has provided advice to the Prime Minister and to cabinet. There's a cabinet minister level committee that meets on pay. There's a deputy minister level meeting that meets on pay.