Government Operations committee  Some items listed in vote 40 were approved—for instance, the one maintaining rail service to remote communities. That is a G and C vote and would fall into one of our three votes. It's not reflected in 2018-19 because it expires, and now it will show up in the next round of estim

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. By and large the transition was relatively smooth. There was one instance in 2016-17, at period four, where there was a risk of overspending in that vote, so we were contemplating whether or not we should ask for a vote transfer from one of the lapsin

Government Operations committee  Even in the system prior to the pilot, all of the grants and contributions were listed, and they continue to be listed. They're now bucketed in different themes. Presumably that is proving helpful for parliamentarians, although we did not necessarily see a latching on to that dur

Government Operations committee  No, as Mr. Pagan said, we had to pay closer attention to the behaviour of the individual programs in each vote.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  In terms of results, it didn't have a huge impact on us. It was relatively simple to implement. It was low cost, although we had to train up a few people. The votes became a little smaller, as opposed to having a large envelope, so if we had to reallocate during the year within t

Government Operations committee  Sure. For example, we have some small programs of $1 million and $800,000. In some cases for those that are demand-driven and application-based, we will get a surge in one year and we'll want to accommodate that surge. In order to do that, we'll take a surplus from another progra

Government Operations committee  The only—

Government Operations committee  It was essentially the same, but the big difference was that we had to remain within the new vote, one of the three votes.

Government Operations committee  Had we wanted to move from one vote to another, we would have had to go back to Treasury Board.

Government Operations committee  And to Parliament.

Government Operations committee  There didn't seem to be a lot of change in the nature of the questions based on the way the votes were restructured.

Transport committee  I'll check about the 12%, but it could be projects. I don't have the details, but I'll get you this information. If we end up in a situation where there is a budget cut—it can happen—we will allocate staff to the areas most at risk. We do this regularly in the case of all modes.

Transport committee  You're talking about pilots—

Transport committee  To train an inspector at the department, it can take six to eight months. They need to learn the rules. Someone from the industry, on the other hand, is already aware of the regulations and should be familiar with them. As for the check pilots, we will be able to give you the de