Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  No. Generally, internal services are those services that support the department in the context of its proper functioning. Generally, they represent functions like human resource management, finance administration, our investments in IM and IT, communications, legal services. So n

Transport committee  I would say, Mr. Chair, that the honourable member certainly has it correct in the context of how these main estimates are being presented. They're certainly being presented before the budget, which will be coming out on Thursday. They represent planned spending for the organizat

Transport committee  As you pointed out, it looks like VIA Rail's budget has been cut significantly this year. However, as I mentioned earlier, that's because its capital program is coming to a term. Based on past experience, we can probably expect VIA Rail to always want to continue investing in cer

Transport committee  That's not our portfolio.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  I'll have that for you in a second.

Transport committee  Two cuts were felt by VIA Rail. One is in their capital program, which is coming to term, so they've finished their capital programs. Although there are substantial cuts in their capital program as a result of Budget 2012, they also had reductions to achieve with respect to the d

Transport committee  Yes, $15.1 million.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  That were not included in the main estimates at the time the main estimates were set for the department because the process had yet to go through Treasury Board to get approval to spend that money.

Transport committee  In any fiscal year the budget is set early in the year, of course, and once the.... Actually the estimates are set before the budget is, but traditionally things are announced in the budget. During the course of the year we make adjustments to our budget based on things that have

Government Operations committee  It goes to the consolidated revenue fund.

Transport committee  Traditionally, when the appropriations are given to the department, there are certain funds that are what they call frozen, in a frozen allotment, to the extent that they are only to be used for those purposes and to the extent that we haven't been able to use that, because, as y