Government Operations committee  That's right. The actual decision will not be until the December approval of supplementary estimates (B).

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure it's all that helpful to pick out specific departments. We will have, certainly as early as mid-May, a detailed list. We have a lot of departments that are involved in BIA initiatives, in loans, as well as through the Treasury Board vote 35 items. You'll have a large

Government Operations committee  These are departments, by the way.... Infrastructure programs are largely statutory, and those are programs where there's a great deal of action now.

Government Operations committee  I might just add that every year we ask for interim supply, which you give us. This year over $20 billion is approved in interim supply before detailed scrutiny by parliamentary committees. In essence, the $3 billion will be under even greater scrutiny than that funding has provi

Government Operations committee  I know that the $500 million, as Paul was saying, for Canada Health Infoway is through to 2010. On page 94 in the action plan, so chapter 3 of the budget, or chapter 4 of this separate March report, we do have an estimate that it is anticipated that $150 million to $250 million

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Regan. We are monitoring departmental spending and progress on these initiatives. That's, indeed, how we were able—the Department of Finance in particular took the lead—to generate the March report. We are now working towards the June report. With each of these i

Government Operations committee  This is an initiative that one part of Treasury Board is implementing, the modernizing of federal labs; it's a multi-year action plan. There has been an attempt to develop a list of the projects that contribute most to core federal regulatory responsibilities. There is $250,000 a

Government Operations committee  I'm not awfully familiar with that program, but I believe the intention is to develop comprehensive health records for Canadians.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. In fact, the federal public service student employment initiative is about $20 million, $10 million in 2009-10 and $10 million in 2010-11, to improve or increase federal public service student employment. In 2007-08 we had 23,000 students hired by the public

Government Operations committee  Well, in this case, I think the projects will be considered until May 15, and presumably they will be under way around that time. But that's just a guess. Infrastructure Canada would be able to clarify that.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  I don't think so. This is a particular intake of proposals under this framework agreement, and with the funds allocated. Obviously, if you use up all of those funds assigned for that purpose, then you'd have to find some other means of funding them. The department alone probably

Government Operations committee  You should really ask them. I'm sorry, I can't really give you a good answer on that. There are other elements here, which I think begin later under this particular framework agreement, but I would have to look at the framework agreement to know.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  Yes, I think that's correct. There are a number of them. It is not just the gas tax fund; some of the base funding for municipalities has also benefited from some acceleration. The gas tax fund, as you know, is an ongoing fund worth about $2 billion a year. Over the next seven