Government Operations committee  Let me address the first question, and I think Mr. Barr may address the others. In terms of the relationship between the Privy Council Office and Shared Services Canada with regard to the security of information technology infrastructure, think about it as we are the client and

Government Operations committee  The 33% increase is for 2016-2017, as compared to 2015-2016. It also includes ad hoc investments for work we have to do to enhance IT infrastructure at the Privy Council Office. We had systems that were becoming outdated and so an investment was needed. This year, there has been

Government Operations committee  I don't have that in mind right now. Just a minute, please. Could we answer later? It wouldn't necessarily be in writing. We should be able to provide that figure to you during the meeting.

Government Operations committee  Sorry, I don't want the member to lose his time because of our searching through our papers here. Ah, here is the answer: There are 113 more FTEs this year than there were in the previous year.

Government Operations committee  We have close to 1,000 currently.

Government Operations committee  Around 900, yes.

Government Operations committee  It is rather large, yes. As I mentioned, for instance, an investment of $22 million had to be made in information technology, and that is included. In fact, these are expenditures to improve systems, but also expenses on services such as those from Shared Services Canada; these a

Government Operations committee  There is no instance I believe where activities done elsewhere were placed under the responsibility of PCO. For instance, the Results and Delivery Unit did not exist before. Of course, the Secretariat of the Treasury Board always did work to analyze results. However, this is a co

Government Operations committee  What I would say is that the scope of the functions residing in PCO has evolved over time. In some cases, prime ministers wanted to bring into PCO special secretariats or special functions to look at different priorities, and PCO has evolved over time in response to those priorit

Government Operations committee  Perhaps to clarify that, if—

Government Operations committee  My answer focused on the expansion of responsibilities as reflected in the main estimates of the Privy Council Office. I made reference to results and delivery unit, which is not consultants, which is not buying services from the outside. There may be a separate issue around the

Government Operations committee  Yes, it's probably just part of the overall churn—

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for that, because we talked about it a bit when we talked about reaching out to Canadians in the mailout that went to the households. There were—

Government Operations committee  That's correct. That was mailed out to the households. I did mention that earlier.