Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, if required, I can stay until 10:30 a.m. But that is the latest.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. This really deals with people working for the airports and the airlines. It's for airline staff, baggage handlers, and security staff themselves, anyone who works related to the airport. That's non-passenger screening. That's not animals. It's the a

Government Operations committee  Thank you for that question. It is really interesting. There are two things. First, this relates to payments being made to provinces directly, so it's $115.8 million and these are one-time payments. That's money which is flowing directly to the two provinces. Most of the dollars

Government Operations committee  There's discussion up front when they come forward with the initial proposal, so when they go to cabinet, to say who's doing what and how that fits together. Once that is done, now we're in the stage of departments getting their money and doing their thing. There is ongoing dialo

Government Operations committee  They're not a new development; they're an increasing trend, for certain. The government has moved to things like Shared Services Canada, which is a shared services organization, so we have more horizontals. There are more of them, for sure. It's also an area where parliamentaria

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  There are two things I would highlight. One is just the nature of government and the projects it's undertaking. There are more partners involved. There is more collaboration. That's one thing. The second, largely driven by some of the efficiencies that we're pursuing, is more ce

Government Operations committee  If it ever made it into DND's reference levels, if they actually were going to spend money and said after they got the money, “No, we're holding now”, because it is a year-by-year thing, they would actually have some capacity to reprofile money on their own. But if—and this is a

Government Operations committee  If a province eliminates a capital tax, obviously the revenue drops, so we compensate them for that.

Government Operations committee  This funding for this organization was not in the main estimates, if I recall correctly, because they hadn't been backed through Treasury Board. Sometimes the timing doesn't line up. In the interim, Treasury Board has actually approved this program. We know who the award winners

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Basically, related to economic development one of the issues the government has been pursuing is to reduce capital taxes. Finance is better positioned to give you details on this, but there's enough evidence that reducing capital taxes stimulates investment. There have been ongoi

Government Operations committee  Or even before, yes.

Government Operations committee  They're not more complicated from a control perspective because we give each department their chunk of money. You may see partway through the year that departments will discuss it and say that they need to move money from department A to department B, and then they come back here

Government Operations committee  The horizontal items—it's in the introductory section of the main estimates—are any items where multiple departments are receiving funding to achieve a common outcome. I'll give you two examples. One is on the more complex side, and the other is fairly simple. The remediation o