Government Operations committee  We've asked for bids.

Government Operations committee  Yes. We put it out.

Government Operations committee  We were looking for consultants who actually have a very good understanding of the PeopleSoft system. That's our HR system that feeds pay.

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  No. CRA is looking at processes to ensure that if an employee has been overpaid and then they are overpaying their taxes, there is a process to get reimbursed for that. The claims office wouldn't deal with that. But if the employee has to go out and hire an accounting firm or an

Government Operations committee  Thanks for the question. I don't have a lot of details, but I can give you a one-year example. In the contract, there are conditions whereby 40% of the premiums that are paid have to be kept on hand by Manulife to ensure it's financially sustainable. If they fall below that amou

Government Operations committee  It's like a loan, right.

Government Operations committee  It's to pay them for any of their capital costs that they use because they're using their own money. Does that make sense?

Government Operations committee  We didn't want to stop making out payments to all of the new CAF members.

Government Operations committee  In the past, we've done actuarial reviews every three years with where we are, because it had been at a steady state. We find that because of some new increased cost drivers such as retroactive salaries—

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  I can start the response. I have three points to make. We've been to this committee before in terms of this program and looking for one-time funding, because the volume of Canadian Armed Forces members who are returning, falling ill, and being medically released has been increasi

Government Operations committee  Sure. Mr. McCauley, if I could just add, it's not $49,000. We'll get you the exact amount per employee. There are two points I wanted to add that I didn't have a chance to say last time. First, as you know, this is the departments' money, which they are spending to train these e

Government Operations committee  It's very difficult at this point to talk about the total spend for the whole program. It's a transformation initiative that is involving four big back office areas of the federal public service, so the financial management systems and the business processes, the human resources

Government Operations committee  I could get back to you.