Government Operations committee  However, the template does not really have the details they are going to report.

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  It's certainly different from the regular process. However, as I mentioned earlier, our main concern was that the vote, as worded, did not include the details of the table that is supposed to allocate those funds. If that reference is made in the vote and it becomes part of the l

Government Operations committee  I assume that this will be the case. If that process starts earlier, with the Treasury Board and Finance collaborating on the spending budget measures, then the Treasury Board submission process could start much earlier, before the budget is actually tabled and approved. Then you

Government Operations committee  We raised the same issue you raised in the terms of the relation to last year. The number of measures and the amount of money that was approved and went through the Treasury Board submission process were much lower this time than last year. It is a concern, but I assume the gover

Government Operations committee  The main concern we raised—

Government Operations committee  As Mr. Fréchette said, it's that $7-billion alignment with the table in the budget, and if that change is made and the table is included in the vote, then obviously that would address the problem. There are still some other issues, though, as you mentioned.

Government Operations committee  There is a trade-off here between getting the authority earlier and getting the budget measures implemented faster through this process. The normal procedure for the Treasury Board is to do the due diligence first and then come to Parliament and ask for approval. This is an issue

Government Operations committee  That's correct for the time being, but the Treasury Board—as they say and as the minister has said—is going to do due diligence before allocating those funds to the departments. I suppose you will see the results of that process in the monthly report that the government has promi

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you. On the first one, we haven't really done anything on what you mentioned in terms of clean energy. If there is some kind of motion or request from Parliament, then we would certainly look at that and see whether it is feasible for us to do it, given our resources and t

Finance committee  To be honest with you, I haven't really thought about this question, so I don't know exactly how to respond. Maybe my colleagues have an idea. Chris.

Finance committee  I'll start, and maybe Chris can add something. You're aware that we do a long-term projection that we call a sustainability report. There, we look at the federal situation, and we show that on that basis, the federal government's fiscal position is actually in a very good posit

Finance committee  This is not something that we have done recently, or looked at. Obviously, the impact on the Canadian economy is an interesting topic. It's something that we can consider in the future and take a look at, and see if we have the capacity or instruments to actually do that kind of