Finance committee  The transfers will continue to increase, yes. The growth rate of health transfers is 6% a year.

Finance committee  It is in the legislation, until 2013-2014. Even the social transfer will increase by 3% annually. Equalization increases with the GDP growth rate. Consequently, transfers will increase in the future.

Finance committee  Pardon me, but which program are you referring to?

Finance committee  I am not familiar with that program. We can look for the information. Is it in the Department of Finance's budget or the government's?

Finance committee  We can find that information.

Finance committee  There are other transfers—non-major transfers—that different departments give, and you'd have to go to the estimates for individual departments. For example, Human Resources and Skills Development transfers money to the provinces under labour market agreements. Those will show up.

Finance committee  Some of them might be bigger than $1 billion. I'm just saying there's a range. The large ones we put in there, and I'd have to go back to that table.

Finance committee  Yes, on both counts: they are recoveries and they are lower than the previous year because they reflect the value of tax points. So they are lower because of economic events over the past year and a half.

Finance committee  There was one payment in 2009-10, but it wasn't in the main estimates so it showed up in one of the supplementary estimates after the legislation for budget 2009 had passed. There is a payment for 2010-11, but that would be the last payment.

Finance committee  They are, I think, all formula-based or statutory. The one large one that is not formula-based would be the transitional assistance for the harmonized tax, but the rest are formula-based.

Finance committee  Yes, it's one time with the provinces--

Finance committee  There would be further if additional provinces come on board.

Status of Women committee  Just to be clear, because my pagination may be a different from yours, are you talking about the announcement made on October 27?

Status of Women committee  Okay. Mr. Rudin will answer that question.

Status of Women committee  Yes, the research working group will report its findings back to the finance ministers in December.