Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  The changes to the Standing Orders that allow us to table the estimates after the budget are valid for the duration of this Parliament, so a future Parliament will determine whether this is progress to be continued or not. In terms of the budget implementation vote, if we didn't

Government Operations committee  I believe we're talking about more than FTEs there. There are professional services and contracting elements to that, I believe.

Government Operations committee  This is the system fix. We're working with PSPC on some of the business rules that are driving some of the Phoenix challenges, trying to standardize some of the different classifications.

Government Operations committee  In fact, it's more than just consultants. We're looking at regs and some of the legal issues.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Peterson. This is a regular occurrence with estimates when we are in a world where we are voting appropriations annually, and we will only seek the appropriations once the parameters of a program are known. The Gordie Howe bridge was planned many years ago, and

Government Operations committee  That's it.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Deltell. I will check the exact amounts, but I think that is part of the costs announced by the government. In that case, it is carried forward. The amounts already available are carried forward to the current year so they are available to both de

Government Operations committee  Mr. Deltell, that is a good point. Two major projects account for the increase in this vote. First is the LGBT class action. Until the courts determine the amounts resulting from this action, these funds are held by Treasury Board. They will be paid out later.

Government Operations committee  The issue here is simply the amount that will have to be paid out as a result of this action. The settlement is expected to cost up to $110 million. It's not clear what the exact amounts will be, so we're holding that money in vote 10 and we will allocate it out. Anything that i

Government Operations committee  No, that is a compensation element that will be addressed separately—

Government Operations committee  On your first question, Mr. McCauley, budget 2018 allocated funding, one year only, for departments to hire temporary support to help process and deal with the Phoenix backlog. Our formula was simply based on the size of the department. It was pro-weighted.

Government Operations committee  It was for Miramichi departments.

Government Operations committee  To an earlier question, government is complicated, so any one initiative is not necessarily the same as another. Generally, we're looking at a three-step process where there will be a policy discussion, a policy decision of government to say that this is something we want to do

Government Operations committee  I don't have a precise number on the number of communities, Mr. Drouin. We can certainly try to get that for you. The minister mentioned earlier the progress that has been made. I think he mentioned 74 water advisories already cleared, with the expectation that this additional fu