Transport committee  Yes. Subsequent to our appearance before the Senate Committee when we were asked the very same question, very quickly after that the two government departments furnished us with the data.

Transport committee  It's a great question. We will be incorporating that data in subsequent reports. In in looking at the data they provided us, we used a modelling approach to estimate the planned spending by those two government departments. I would say that, by and large, our estimates were gener

Transport committee  Yes, generally.

Transport committee  We can certainly provide that data to the committee.

Transport committee  To Mr. Giroux's point, as part of phase 1 and phase 2, there are 35 discrete programs around infrastructure that have been implemented by the federal government, and there are at least 10, or roughly a dozen, under the pre-2016 programs. That gets you nearly 50 federal infrastruc

Transport committee  The short answer is yes. With respect to the precise amount of money, it's $247.5 million that's being transferred for a specific project in Manitoba, but all of the assurances that we've been provided with by Infrastructure Canada indicate that the overall spending envelope will

Transport committee  No. It would be about $3.5 billion.

Library of Parliament committee  It's a very good question. The starting point for us, quite obviously, is being able to cost all the requests that come in. The second aspect, in addition to costing all the requests we receive, is to cost them in a timely manner, recognizing that for political parties what can b

Government Operations committee  The very short answer is, stay tuned until the end of April, when we come out with our own independent economic and fiscal outlook. One of the reasons the office was established in 2008 and going back to Bill C-2 in 2006 was for parliamentarians to have an independent perspective

Government Operations committee  Yes. As you point out, we did see that only roughly 75% of the measures identified in Budget 2017 has shown up in the supplementary estimates, thus far this fiscal year. The government itself, Mr. Brison, was before this committee about two weeks ago. He identified his aspiratio

Government Operations committee  That means that on April 16, the target for the government is to have every measure—by last count, over 160 measures—from Budget 2018 showing up within the main estimates. I can say that over the past few years, the “roughly 75%” is more or less par for the course. It's pretty

Government Operations committee  You see that 95% of the dollars of Budget 2017 have shown up in the supplementary estimates. It's simply that a significant number of individual measures and smaller items haven't actually shown up in the supplementary estimates, up to this point. In lieu of using the word scler

Government Operations committee  It was. The business case was developed over the course of the summer once C-44 had received royal assent. We finalized it at that point.

Government Operations committee  Yes, very much so.

Government Operations committee  I think it has always been implicitly part of our mandate, since the office was set up and running in 2008. In 2011 the House of Commons finance committee passed a motion at that point actually directing the parliamentary budget officer to prepare a cost estimate of any piece o