Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I want to bring your attention to the main estimates. When we publish our projections, the information is broken down by department and by program architecture. That information is already provided in the main estimates. As for the supplementary esti

Government Operations committee  I think that, in his letter, Minister Clement also suggests that you study this. Parliament has some control based on votes. If you change the control method based on programs, a completely different control mechanism will be created. I don't think that one is better or worse tha

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, the supply is in fact in the main estimates. If you wanted to have a look at them, I believe they start on page.... Okay, the full supply.... But the interim supply, I guess, is not included in the mains.

Government Operations committee  That's not exactly....

Government Operations committee  We mustn't forget about statutory votes. Most of the increases come from statutory votes. They are provided for information purposes, but statutory votes cover pension plans and employment insurance. And that's where most of the increases come from. In addition, in his report, t

Government Operations committee  The Department of National Defence is one of the organizations that require the most capital investments. Every time there is a change in the purchase and acquisition of goods and services included in that vote, there are major repercussions. If we don't take into account the Dep

Government Operations committee  Exactly. The considerable change you are seeing for that whole vote is attributable to the Department of National Defence, whose expenditures fluctuate based on the purchases and acquisitions made from one year to the next. If you do not take that department's portion into accoun

Government Operations committee  I will ask Ms. Walker to answer that question.

Government Operations committee  There is another very interesting aspect. In the past, people had to submit forms to insurance companies. They had to send them supporting documents. That’s done automatically with the card. Therefore, we save on paperwork, and that leads to considerable administration savings.

Government Operations committee  They will be recurring.

Government Operations committee  Generally speaking, it is three-twelfths unless there are some specific requirements, which the department has to put to us and justify. I will ask Ms. Thornton to give you the explanation as to why the others are higher than the normal three-twelfths.

Government Operations committee  No, because, Mr. Chair, we have to look at what is admissible for the carry-forward. We have to be able to determine whether they have used up all of their existing votes. So it's not tasked.

Government Operations committee  It is.

Government Operations committee  It's not a pass; it's not an automatic.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.