Government Operations committee  I'd need the specific page reference to be able to give you a comparison.

Government Operations committee  Page 78 of the document. On pages 78-79, we're seeing the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board. Their total voted program is $26.2 million. They break that down by their strategic outcome. You were talking about aviation?

Government Operations committee  We have a number of issues that we would like to address with parliamentarians in terms of better alignment of the budget, the estimates, and the public accounts documents. Currently, we can say that the documents are aligned in the sense that the budget, in volume I of the Publi

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. The increase of $57.5 million in 2015-16, as mentioned, is largely attributable to the cash profile, the needs of the particular components of the project. For instance, in 2015-16 we will see the inauguration of the visitor welcome centre just across

Government Operations committee  Correct.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I'm not aware of the details or the example that you're providing, but what I can say is that we do have, at the Treasury Board Secretariat in the Office of the Comptroller General, a centre of excellence on costing, and resident in that program as we

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I am not familiar with any work that has been done, particularly with Marine Atlantic, but I will—

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. This is a process that we take quite seriously. The sector exists to support the expenditure management system, and we appear regularly before parliamentary committees. We take this quite seriously.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. Transparency and accountability for the moneys provided to departments again are something that we take quite seriously. We have, I think, worked very constructively with this committee, with the Senate Committee on National Finance, with the Office o

Government Operations committee  There are two documents that comprise part III of the estimates. The report on plans and priorities is tabled in the spring to support main estimates, and then at the conclusion of the fiscal year a departmental performance report is tabled, which provides that backward-looking v

Government Operations committee  I will start.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Again I appreciate the question. The operating expenditures for Citizenship and Immigration for main estimates 2015-16 are $566.5 million, compared with $556.4 million last year, so there is in fact a slight increase to their operating vote. I would defer to the de

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I welcome this, because I think it is an opportunity to educate members of Parliament about the process and perhaps dispel some myths and misconceptions. I spoke earlier about supplementary estimates (C) and the fact that they are tabled according to

Government Operations committee  Yes.