Justice committee  The Financial Administration Act provides that you can carry funds from one year to the other. One of the principles is that you can never exceed your authorities, so as a result, departments normally come within authorities and are allowed to carry forward up to 5% of the voted

Justice committee  In part it is because the actual planned spending takes into consideration funding that we're going to get through the central votes, based on historical patterns of accessing those, for example, pay list expenditures, offsetting compensation increases, and also the carry-forward

Justice committee  On those kinds of things, yes.

Justice committee  They're slightly more modest.

Justice committee  At the moment they represent about $63 million. That is a combination of our carry forward, under vote 25, from last year to this year; an amount, under Treasury Board vote 15, for compensation to offset collective agreement increases; as well as $23 million, out of vote 30, pay

Justice committee  Looking back two years, the accuracy rate has been about 96.2%, so we've come within about 3.8%. For fiscal year 2011-12, the Department of Justice has realized a 4.4% variance against its overall budget. For the year 2012-13, it's a 3.3% variance.

Justice committee  I would suggest that they come from a number of sources in our different structure. As you know, we're an organization that operates with both A-base and vote net revenue authorities. At the end of the year, on a budget of roughly $1 billion, they will come from a number of place

Justice committee  Actually, the amount in the report on plans and priorities was forecasting that we could have expenses in these areas, provided Parliament approved the vote. The starting point was the mains, and we had that information in hand, but it was to the extent that we would move forward

Justice committee  Perhaps I could answer this way. Basically, when the main estimates were submitted, we did not have the power to make a request for an additional $10.8 million for the program or to renew the program for a year. The budget is made up of grants and contributions, on the one hand,

Justice committee  For 2013-2014—

Justice committee  The total amount will be about $16 million. There is a basic budget and some temporary funding essentially to the tune of $11 million.

Justice committee  The amount basically covers the operating costs for managing the program. That may include wages or other operating costs.

Justice committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. I believe you're referring to page 9 of the report on plans and priorities. Essentially, the main estimates is actually the first of the four-stage estimate process. As you know, our funding is secured through the main estimates, the supple

Justice committee  It's because it's premature for us to estimate what those amounts will be at this time because of the nature of those costs.

Justice committee  All I can say is that the report on plans and priorities is in line with our Treasury Board Secretariat guidelines. They're prepared according to the policies that are given to us, and therefore, what is here actually reflects TBS guidelines and templates.