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Public Accounts committee All of our draft guidance documents—and there are at least three different parts of this—have been in circulation in departments over the last few months. We're finalizing them now, and we will be finalizing them at different stages through 2010-11. By the start of the next fisca
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee No. We know that we have to continue to build the community, build up competencies, and build up our indeterminate personnel within government. We have some real challenges, clearly, but we're working on many, many fronts. We're working with 11 universities to build up the commun
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee Within Treasury Board itself, or do you mean across government?
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee Yes. This is still the draft guidance, but we would be happy to provide it to you.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee Yes, that's correct.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee It is.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee Frankly, I think anybody responsible for an initiative would want more resources rather than less. Certainly we will be trying to make the case. In departments it will be a matter for the deputies, in the first instance, to determine whether they require more resources. Mr. Yeate
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee Absolutely.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee Yes, it is.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee We hope that we will have more and more people to catch it as we move along, yes.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Lee. Yes, we are responsible. Treasury Board Secretariat is responsible for providing oversight of the function.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Government Operations committee There's a breakdown by department and by category of spending in the budgetary main estimates, by standard object. It starts on page 1-26. If you want even further detail, it is available online in the public accounts. You can go straight into—
April 12th, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Government Operations committee Thank you. If I could refer the honourable member to the budget, there is a good account of our fiscal position, which we expect to remain the strongest in the G-7. We start out with an advantage of having a much smaller total government net debt to GDP than other G-7 countries,
March 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Government Operations committee Those expenditures come from what you referred to earlier: the central financial system, the CFMRS. They are aggregated at the end of the year by Public Works and are published in the public accounts. But it's very hard to do on a planned basis, what you're asking for.
March 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith
Government Operations committee All the departments.
March 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alister Smith