Government Operations committee  This was an example of an off-cycle decision.

Government Operations committee  An off-the-budget cycle....

Government Operations committee  I'll just add that if you are comparing main estimates from 2012-13 to main estimates of 2013-14, the biggest difference is simply that the budget 2013 funding hadn't been announced or approved through Treasury Board yet. If you look at the summary of estimates on page 17 in Engl

Government Operations committee  If the concern is around the level of scrutiny at the Treasury Board in terms of voted increases, yes, even now we go through at the point of not just the policy decision in cabinet around establishing the funding levels, but also when it comes to Treasury Board to seek program a

Government Operations committee  A portion of the capital requirements was also part of budget 2013 and another part of it, $43 million, is reprofiled from previous years related to delays from other capital projects.

Government Operations committee  For the operating budget carry forward, the current method is to use 5% of the operating budget established in the main estimates as a department maximum. So if you have a vote 1, operating expenditures, that is $100 million, then your maximum that you could carry forward into ne

Government Operations committee  We start at $1.2 billion in main estimates. The amounts that you see in these supplementary estimates are to raise the ceiling government-wide from $1.2 to...sorry, I'm doing the arithmetic in my head. We're increasing it by the value of the transfer and by the new $275 billion