Government Operations committee  They do not.

Government Operations committee  You mentioned the budgeting cycle. The bulk of the requests for adjustments, through the supplementary estimates, are generated by two sources. One is new initiatives that are identified in the budget, and the other is programs or initiatives that sunset in a particular fiscal ye

Government Operations committee  The $952.1 million is what is described as the total transfer protection of the fiscal arrangements.

Government Operations committee  Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, this one, okay.

Government Operations committee  Most of those, Mr. Chair, are really in relation to the adjustments that we've done as a result of the strategic review decisions announced in the last budget. For us, those consisted largely of elimination of positions as a result of the administrative services review, and the s

Government Operations committee  That's correct, yes.

Government Operations committee  This particular request in the supplementary estimates is not related to the severance. This is specifically related to pay increases for periods prior to the cost containment measures. I'll give you a couple of examples. We have restructuring elements for ships' officers class

Government Operations committee  The requirements and the funds for those were in fact included, I believe, in the supplementary estimates (A), and they were $1.3 billion. So they were in fact requested and voted. The payouts are now under way at employees' request. Some have requested the full amount, and som

Government Operations committee  And if I may, Mr. Chair, we have also added to slides 10 and 11 of your deck the specific elements with regard to the Treasury Board Secretariat estimates, which we have talked about in and out of the discussion. They're there for your information.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, we have circulated a summary presentation of what is contained in the supplementary estimates (B). The minister covered a fair number of these elements in his opening remarks. We can quickly go through them if you'd like--as you have them in front of you--or we can jus

Government Operations committee  Bill's fast.

Government Operations committee  It's not great English, but the meaning is there.

Government Operations committee  It is. You have them all here.

Government Operations committee  In the first document you read, the quarterly financial reports that the departments have started to produce are one of the items the office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer commented on. The first one was published at the end of June, or in August, for the end of June. That i

Government Operations committee  The horizontal items are actually found on page 205, and they are described, as we have started to do, in a bit more detail. For example, the clean energy programs and the remediation of contaminated sites are described. We are trying to give parliamentarians an update on what