Government Operations committee  It's going to go towards figuring out the plan for the ongoing assessment, because to clean these up, you kind of have to keep things in the pipelines. You need the ongoing assessment, the more detailed assessment, while you're cleaning up other sites. Otherwise you kind of dry u

Government Operations committee  For members who may not be familiar with the terminology, statutory spending is the spending that is directly through legislation, where we don't actually put a hard cap on the spending. A good example is the EI program. If you qualify for EI, you get a cheque—I guess you get a

Government Operations committee  Sure. It's an interesting question. Hopefully, I can give you an answer that makes some sense. As I mentioned, supplementary estimates (B) are always our biggest. The reason for that is you have a budget in February. Supplementary estimates (A) follow close on its heels, and oft

Government Operations committee  We can get you 2011-12 versus 2013-14 for certain. Just to maybe touch on parts of your question, I don't have the comparison with me but we can certainly get that. The 20,000 jobs eliminated that you were referring to was as a result of the deficit reduction action plan. Of thos

Government Operations committee  This is the second and final piece. There was a big piece last year in supplementary estimates (B). Maybe I'll ask my colleague to see if she can dig out that number. This represents the final payment of $190 million. The $50 million is actually the final negotiated piece around

Government Operations committee  That will be the final.

Government Operations committee  Sure, I'll give it a shot. Where you will actually find lapsed funding, and this will get a little complex, is in the Public Accounts of Canada, which I did happen to bring along. Volume II will give you department-by-department lapse. There are a couple of points on lapse, t

Government Operations committee  The $65 million is the portion that's in supplementary estimates (B). There have been other funds flowed for that event. The $65 million in this case relates to three facilities: University of Toronto, York University, and the velodrome in Milton. That's what this money is for. T

Government Operations committee  My recollection is that it's actually CP that owns the rails and VIA leases them from CP, so I believe there's a charge there. That's my recollection; VIA is not the owner of the rail track itself. That being said, this funding goes, as I believe I mentioned earlier, and as you'

Government Operations committee  As far as I know, this funding is for passenger cars, signalling systems, and things like that. I'm not aware of anything on track. I believe that's outside.... I'm looking to Marcia....

Government Operations committee  That is a choice that VIA Rail has. If VIA actually owns part of the track or if they're funding this through their arrangement with another organization.... We'd have to do a follow-up to see what percentage of the funding actually relates to rail repair and who owns the rail.

Government Operations committee  To my knowledge, this is based on repair for existing train stations. This is not funding to abandon existing stations; it's about repairing their existing asset inventory. To my knowledge, there's not any funding in here that is related to decommissioning of train stations.

Government Operations committee  That's a better question for VIA in terms of what they've done for their operational plan. As I said, there's no funding in here related to decommissioning, but I can't speak to what has been done in the past.

Government Operations committee  The funding that would go to VIA—and I'm sorry, I believe I said CP earlier, but I think I'm dating myself here; it is CN. Thank you for that. VIA would have two choices. They could fund the repairs themselves, or they could in theory decide to give that money to another organiz

Government Operations committee  This would be the categories around passenger railcars, the stations themselves, and signalling systems on the rail lines themselves. Those are the big three that I would highlight for you.