Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  We did not stop any of our other activities within our department in terms of funding that. What we do in terms of good financial management is make sure that we don't ask for money we don't need, so we had enough in terms of what didn't get spent in our department that we could

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. We did not stop doing any of the work that we had intended to do last year in order to do that, but just in the way plans happen, you expect that you're going to spend, for example, at the beginning of the year, $10 million on an initiative. Sometimes you're

Government Operations committee  With regard to the website, we would have put in a pilot project with regard to looking at it. We wanted to move very quickly, so we invested roughly $400,000. That's what was in our estimates for last year. This year, what we're planning to do is further support the website and

Government Operations committee  No. It would be included in the current $1 million that we have for Senate reform.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question. The reason why it wasn't requested as part of the main estimates.... If you understand the process, you get your main estimates from 2015-16, you add your supplementary estimates (A), (B), and (C), and there's a reduction for things that you

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately, I can't give it to you, but we would have spent a significant amount, probably to the tune of 85% of that money, but again, that's something that—

Government Operations committee  Maybe I can help and sort of give you the grosso modo. We have added four new people to PCO to support the resources. That would be roughly a cost of $450,000 to $500,000 in terms of the overall costs. The other amounts of money are related to the advisory committee that they sup

Government Operations committee  We do have vacancies right now that we are in the midst of trying to fill.

Government Operations committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, I will respond to that question. We haven't quite closed all our books yet, but we're looking at roughly between $3.5 million and $4 million in terms of spending in 2016-17. Initially, the expectation at that point in time was that because we didn't get our

Government Operations committee  We would have gotten resources in through estimates (A), (B), and (C), so we—

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  It was roughly around $3.5 million to $4 million.

Government Operations committee  Yes, from other program funding that we would have received throughout the year, or A-base resources that we wouldn't have spent.

Government Operations committee  The whole thing is that we haven't completely closed our books for 2016-17, so to give you a very specific answer, I'm not able to do that, but as we produce our public accounts, we'll be able to see.