Health committee  That's a good question. I'm looking at my senior director of costing right now. I don't think we did that kind of accuracy measure.

Health committee  If I may, we can give you a couple of examples. On costing the ships for National Defence, for example, we were pretty accurate. The same thing can be said about the F-35 with regard to my predecessor. We do have these kinds of examples where we do the costing. In costing, fisc

Health committee  Thank you, Chair. Vice-Chairs, members of the committee, thank you for inviting us to discuss the results of our study. I would also like to thank you for your motion requesting the PBO to conduct a study on the costing of national pharmacare. It was certainly a challenge, but

Government Operations committee  I cannot really comment on the staffing at Treasury Board. I want to come back to your question and to the previous question about timing and this committee, but also the staffing of this committee. If you do see, as you say, that the path of this reform will drive this committe

Government Operations committee  Again, as to whether the documents will really help, we mentioned—

Government Operations committee  That's right. We don't know. Until we see these better aligned documents, it will be very difficult. That's why it's a matter of whether the two departments will collaborate and have a document that will be helpful for parliamentarians.

Government Operations committee  So do we here.

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I could quote from the evidence of this committee in 2012. This quote comes from Bill Matthews: The estimates from the previous year are certainly used by my colleagues in the Department of Finance in formulating their next budget. That budget will then influence the m

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I can add something very quickly, Mr. Chair. What's interesting is that in the standing order, if you remember, the original plan, as I mentioned, was May 1 from the beginning, since February 2016 when these discussions began. Eventually it was refined, and in November w

Government Operations committee  What I said is that we know, because it's mentioned in the Standing Orders, that it is for this Parliament. Technically it will end with this 41st Parliament. What will happen after, we don't know, but it's mentioned in the Standing Orders that the change to Standing Order 81 is

Government Operations committee  No, we don't necessarily have contact. When we prepare our reports, we actually forward our information, that is, that we interact, we work together. However, we have not received any actual analysis that the criticisms we are making would be well received. In fact, the same chal

Government Operations committee  I should not use that word, “acid” test. It's old. Preston Manning used to use that word. Jason, do you want to say something?

Government Operations committee  That is an excellent question. Thank you. Indeed, you are asking whether it would be better to have a lot of details and to vote on those, or to have fewer details, but a main objective and to vote on that, while giving the departments the freedom to use funds by objective, as I

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. The objective of the Treasury Board is precisely to make life easier for parliamentarians and to help them play their proper role in holding the purse strings. It's clear. There is a spirit and a will in this sense. As Mr. Askari and I mentioned earl

Government Operations committee  Mr. Jacques could probably give you more details about the Transport Canada project.