Government Operations committee  No, you're moving to the strategic and operating review, which some people call the deficit reduction action plan. The strategic review started in 2007. We brought in departments over a four-year period to look at which of their programs were performing and which weren't, and tha

Government Operations committee  So, if we can flip to the strategic and operating review, just give me two seconds to refresh my memory. So that was a budget 2011 item. The goal was at least $4 billion in savings, and it was based on 2011-12 numbers. The results of that were 19,200 positions eliminated, and a

Government Operations committee  Which some people also call the deficit reduction action plan—they're interchangeable numbers.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. Just by way of background, this is the Canada Job Fund, and it does replace the labour market development agreements. What you have in here is roughly $500 million of spending, of which $8.9 million is for the operations of the departments. The balanc

Government Operations committee  Over the previous regime, I cannot. I'm sorry, I don't have that information for you. But you did properly articulate the three streams related to this. There's the Canada job grant, which is cost-shared between the government and the employer. There's employer-sponsored training

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, those are very good questions, but they're probably better answered by the department responsible. I don't have a good handle on the labour market requirements.

Government Operations committee  It's per capita-based. I believe they use the 2012 census, if I'm recalling correctly. It's based on population. I'm sure we can get that information for you based on those, but I don't have that one with me.

Government Operations committee  Yes, and $195 million is what they expect to spend this year. It will be, I expect, a fairly lumpy profile over the years.

Government Operations committee  I can't speak to what system they'll put in for the tolls. You're quite right that the government hasn't indicated they expect this to be a toll bridge. I will say that from an internal control perspective, cash is the easiest thing to steal. With the advent of things like smart

Government Operations committee  It relates to the expenditure management cycle of the government. That's actually a very good question, so I'm not going to change it one bit.

Government Operations committee  If you think of the supplementary estimates (A), which are our spring supplementaries, they didn't use to exist. They only exist for items that are basically in the budget but for which a department can't wait for the fall supplementary estimates. So you really have to prove to u

Government Operations committee  It pertains to VIA Rail being a crown corporation, so it must follow the same legislation as the private sector does in funding pension plans. You can't just have an unfunded pension plan liability. So when you have a funding deficit, I believe, according to law, you have about f

Government Operations committee  It's an adjustment, and we'll expect it again in future years, but to be going down, because at the same time the VIA Rail pension fund has investments. As you would know, the economic recession caused pension plan assets to drop. They're now performing better again, so this amou

Government Operations committee  I'm trying to remember.... Do we have one other one? I can't recall one off the top of my head.

Government Operations committee  No, no.