Government Operations committee  I don't have the number of sites with me, but we'd be happy to provide that.

Government Operations committee  If I may, I was able to find some information relevant to your question. You may be well aware that the federal contaminated sites action plan has been going through multiple phases. This is the third phase of the funding. Under this particular phase, we're managing 46 different

Government Operations committee  The key driver there is a program integrity reduction that we were just talking about when you asked about the budget renewal of the $275 million that will offset that once we're successfully able to procure it.

Government Operations committee  In a different way than normal. Normally we would have come here, and it would have been an estimate by vote. But that vote is happening now on the Treasury Board P3 where you see the million dollars. When we return you'll see it as a printed item not to be voted on in the supple

Government Operations committee  We are in that transitionary year. You know that the process is changing so in the future budget items would have been secured and available to be added to the main estimates before we appear at this meeting with you before this committee. We will get there, but this is the awkwa

Government Operations committee  Because they're already available for you to vote on.

Government Operations committee  That's why they're here, though. The other ones have been through Treasury Board. They're here for you to vote on. These ones, we will go to Treasury Board with.

Government Operations committee  Well, most of it's renewal funding, but if there's an item like G7—

Government Operations committee  Of course, yes.

Government Operations committee  For the main estimates, everything at some point in its history would have been through a Treasury Board process. If it's steady state, ongoing operations, it doesn't go back over and over again. It's steady state. It's in our appropriations for you to vote on.

Government Operations committee  Well, the Public Accounts is the end of the year expenditures incurred on behalf of the departments of whatever funding was brought in.

Government Operations committee  Well, we're really into two different worlds. The Public Accounts is the end of the year accounting of the expenditures incurred by the department in a—

Government Operations committee  It will be published the way the Public Accounts always publish our documented financial statements accounting for the expenditures.

Government Operations committee  I'm not familiar with what the PBO said.

Government Operations committee  I'm glad you raised the question again, because it would be very presumptuous of us to put in plans, published documents, that which has not been voted by Parliament ahead of the schedule. It's unfortunate that we're in that timing issue—