Government Operations committee  Yes, but those changes were made by the commissioner herself. She’s the one who asked for them. We did not ask for them. Those are their own projections.

Government Operations committee  Yes, precisely.

Government Operations committee  Allow me to answer. As I explained earlier, the decision goes back to 2006. It was based on the idea that departments should take responsibility for their employees’ language training to better meet their needs. When all the funding used to be centralized, language training was

Government Operations committee  I want to clarify that there will be a net reduction.

Government Operations committee  The decision that was made was to transfer the responsibility of providing second-language training to each individual department. So it was decided that a limited and decreasing number of instructors would be kept at the Canada School of Public Service for a specific period of t

Government Operations committee  Perhaps Sally should do that.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, minister. I appreciate the member's question. The Treasury Board Secretariat's budget is indeed undergoing a net reduction of $192 million. I believe that is the figure you are referring to. Vote 1, which represents the department's operating expenditures, entails a

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Minister. The Regulatory Cooperation Council is engaged actively with about 20 departments and agencies and their counterparts in the United States. The funds are used to support the secretariat and the development of the action plan. And now the plans are actually g

Government Operations committee  Thank you. It's a question of how you interpret the information. For example, the question on personnel costs that was asked earlier is shown in the PBO's report as though there were no components to it, whereas when we look at the numbers, we unpack them and see them from estim

Government Operations committee  Thank you, minister. I believe the centre receives the bulk of its funding under the roadmap. The centre of expertise was set up with that in mind. It receives an annual budget of approximately $3 million.

Government Operations committee  I can be fast, if that's okay. Thank you for the question. There is a one-time $1.3 billion increase, which is to cover the elimination of severance, and we allowed under the agreement that we had negotiated with a number of bargaining agents for employees to avail themselves of

Government Operations committee  Alright. As the minister said, we have two directives in place, and they are well-known to employees; they address the responsibilities of managers as well as the responsibilities and rights of employees. It is important to understand that none of the decisions contained in the

Government Operations committee  There's very little in vote 10. There's about $10 million left.

Government Operations committee  It has been used in the past when initiatives such as Government Online, for example, are established. In this case, vote 10 was used to transfer funds to government departments. You can use supplementary estimates or estimates processes, or you can use allocations from central v

Government Operations committee  Yes, it's across government—but we use that very infrequently. It is a vote that can be used for those initiatives, but is very seldom used because we tend to want to actually have the amounts ascribed to each of the operating votes of each department, because that is a cleaner r