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Government Operations committee I'm just going to refer to the Department of Finance's estimates themselves on page 51 of the supplementary estimates (B) document. What you should see in there is the list of the voted items first, and then you'll see the statutory bit, and on the federal-provincial payments t
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee Mr. Chair, to be clear, the severance is not a buyback. This was a payout of severance that employees had earned during their tenure with the government as part of their collective agreements. It just was a matter of giving employees the option of receiving those funds now or lat
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee I will commit to five to ten minutes.
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will move fairly quickly, and I will not repeat anything that was covered in our earlier discussions. Slide 2 is a quick overview of how our estimates document is organized and what you'll find in it. There is an introductory section that provides some de
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee While we're on the auto deal, GM made an early repayment as well. So it's not unique to just Chrysler, but this fiscal year it was just Chrysler. In slide 4, we have the history of the last couple of years of estimates. I think we've gone through that in enough detail that I won
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee I just have a couple of points of clarification, Mr. Chair. Statutory items are in the estimates for information purposes only and are not part of the appropriation bill that will be voted on. Normally, the main estimates would have the statutory items, and you'd see an update
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee The Province of Newfoundland, Mr. Chair, has a choice as to how it elects to calculate that formula. So, again, we're waiting for them to make their choice on how the formula would be exercised, and that's why you're seeing it here. I should say I actually mixed the two up. I th
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee I was referring to my notes for a second. In terms of Budget 2011 funding, it's $25 million per year for two years to build upon the Budget 2009 funding. The $11.8 that we requested in these supplementary estimates is a re-profile from 2010-11 to 2011-12 to accommodate some pro
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee It is in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, yes.
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee The biggest change, Mr. Chair, is the winding down of the economic action plan. In the previous year, you would have seen some funding still around the economic action plan. There is still some that has been reprofiled, but that's certainly winding down. It's also challenging t
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee Sure. Last year, 2010-11, the main estimates came in at $261.6. billion. There was a supplementary estimates (A) for $1.9 billion, and a supplementary estimates (B) for $3.1 billion, for a total of $266.6 billion. For those of you who may recollect last year, there was a supplem
November 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Public Accounts committee The one thing I would add is that if you look at the main estimates, we've started doing a bit of narrative comparing the main estimates for a given department in one year versus the next. So if you do see that the resources of a department have changed one year over the next, yo
October 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for inviting me here today to speak about the process of supply. What we mean by “supply” is the process used to actually resource departments. In this case, we're talking about estimates and all that goes on behind them. You should be looking at
October 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Public Accounts committee My name is Bill Matthews. I am the assistant secretary in charge of the expenditure management sector at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
October 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews
Government Operations committee Okay. When you look at volume II, what you will find in there is authority granted through the main estimates and then through other means. If you see a vote transfer or something allocated from the centre, you will actually be able to follow departmental spending. My suggestio
June 20th, 2011Committee meeting
Bill Matthews