Government Operations committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, it's an accumulation of a few initiatives. You can look at the deficit reduction action plan as being a big part of it, and even before that, you saw reductions in strategic review going back from 2007 to 2011. The biggest chunk of that is the result of actions un

Government Operations committee  I'll have to check that, but I can get that to you before we leave today. What I will say about the public debt surcharge is that it is a function of two things. One is the size of the liability, and the other is the actual interest rate itself. We are dealing with an environmen

Government Operations committee  No, it's not. It does relate to a court case as it says. That item is still before the courts, so I can't really offer up much detail at this stage on that because it is still before the courts—but I can you it's not related to that. At a subsequent meeting, I'll be able to offer

Government Operations committee  It does relate to an out-of-court settlement that is being negotiated, but it still has to be ratified by the courts, so I believe it's inappropriate for me at this time, Mr. Chair, to talk about what's there.

Government Operations committee  Maybe, Mr. Chair, if I could suggest that if there's a need to go into greater detail, we could potentially go in camera to discuss it. Because it still is before the courts, it's not for questions....

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. Mr. Chair, as you have already said, two colleagues are here with me this morning to help me answer any questions members of the committee may have. However, we will first give a short presentation to highlight the broad strokes of

Government Operations committee  The money itself, as far as I recollect, and I may ask my colleagues to help me out.... They've moved the organization. I'm not aware of an actual reduction in funding for Old Port of Montreal; I think it was effectively just a transfer of responsibility into the Canada Lands Com

Government Operations committee  They have not been recently, to my recollection, no. But I'm wondering whether.... I haven't looked at the Canada Lands Company corporate plan documents to see whether there's any news there, but to the best of my recollection, no.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. This does not relate to transfers between votes. As always, if a government department wants to use another department to help deliver its services, that's a vote transfer and it will run through supplementary estimates. You will continue to see that

Government Operations committee  I do. Okay. You won't see the money from CIDA because CIDA is actually still presented separately. That's the change we're talking about, just that “Estimates to Date” where the transfer happens in-year. We already had published CIDA's main estimates and we've kind of kept them t

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure that I can offer you any information on that front. Those might be very good questions for, I'm assuming, ESDC—what I will forever call HRSDC—to actually discuss, and for you to pose questions about homelessness and their programs. You may find some information in th

Government Operations committee  I'm not saying you're wrong. I just don't recall any reductions on that front. I can look into the budget, but in terms of how the programs will be managed, it's better to ask the department that question.

Government Operations committee  The timing is changed, yes, exactly.

Government Operations committee  Regarding social housing or affordable housing run by CMHC and the federal government, slide thirteen of the presentation mentioned two amounts for investments in affordable housing. Obviously, to spend that money efficiently, you have to work with other partners. I will highli