Government Operations committee  Under those three categories, yes.

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of points to make here. The member is quite right that there were reductions made. The biggest one I would highlight is budget 2011 where there was a goal set of $4 billion in reductions. Those reductions were achieved and departmental budgets were reduced. S

Government Operations committee  That's part of it, those essential votes. I'll just run through them because we don't bump into them a lot There's something called vote 5 that is government-wide contingencies. It was, if I recall correctly, not used at all last year, so the whole amount lapsed. That's fine. Th

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of things here. From a parliamentary perspective, departments cannot exceed the amount that Parliament has voted for them. If you have a department that exceeds its votes, there would be significant consequences depending on the reasons why. In this case this

Government Operations committee  I don't know whether I have that breakdown specifically, but maybe my colleague has. No, she hasn't. It's a gross amount here. The priorities are Chinooks, frigates, armoured patrol vehicles, and then the two training exercises that I highlighted, although there is additional

Government Operations committee  For members who may have brought the departmental performance reports with them, and I don't know if they have, I think you're probably looking at page 8 of the DPR. You're right; we did provide the overview of the government as a whole and that's our primary role. Then we'll spe

Government Operations committee  Yes, if the committee is interested, we could certainly follow up on that with the department.

Government Operations committee  As the member has mentioned, there is funding in here for advertising related to Veterans Affairs. This funding will be targeted towards raising awareness of Veterans Affairs programs. If you think about the way Veterans Affairs funding is organized, you will note that they bas

Government Operations committee  I'll give you a bit of background. If you think about the timing of supplementary estimates (B), these were largely put together before the decision was made for Canada to go and participate in the current initiative that's happening related to ISIS. So are there any direct dolla

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. Again, it gets back to how National Defence and all departments operate the budget. They're given a bulk number for operating dollars and they're free to spend that amount, whether for submarine or for frigates. But we are very much into maintenance d

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning to all the members of the committee. We are pleased to be here with you today to discuss the supplementary estimates (B) 2014-2015. As usual, we have prepared a short presentation to give you an overview of the supplementary estimate

Public Accounts committee  Did I miss anything, Nick?

Public Accounts committee  I have a couple of thoughts, and Nick can weigh in with the actual detailed numbers. I'd say we're not back to a surplus yet. They're forecasting a surplus, but for the current year we've posted a deficit. We haven't actually realized a surplus yet. If you think about the size o

Public Accounts committee  On the GM front, GM is ongoing. The government ended up with shares—

Public Accounts committee  —so we're selling those in pieces. As to the actual gain in the 2013-14 year, I will turn to my colleague, because he just told me the number.