Government Operations committee  It's for PCO buildings. In budget 2016 we were approved a large amount of money to deal with some physical and IT issues. As you can appreciate, with events over the past few years, not just in Canada but elsewhere, physical security is of great importance to our department. Par

Government Operations committee  I think there is a concept of generally.... Again, there are clear deliverables. It's important to keep in mind that while we don't necessarily know the exact configuration of it, there is a set of clear deliverables that Minister Gould committed to. Really, it's about ensuri

Government Operations committee  It would be a high-level spending plan with a best estimate of the breakdown. Again, we know the total amount. We know the amount by fiscal year. There is only so much money, and it's all—

Government Operations committee  We have our best guess as to how it would be spent. We have a breakdown—

Government Operations committee  Yes, because that's what was approved, and so we worked on a funding request to identify the fact that we needed more funding to do these 1,300 positions that fall under this open and transparent—

Government Operations committee  —so we needed more funding for that, and if I could just finish on one point, I'd point out the fact that we've completed 950 appointments under this. I do want to make it clear that a lot of progress has been made on this file.

Government Operations committee  I apologize. I'll have to confirm to the committee whether all positions are there. I do know that every effort is made to post positions in an open and transparent way. That is the whole goal of the process.

Government Operations committee  That's used for salaries, largely.

Government Operations committee  Going back to the previous question, when the work was originally resourced in budget 2016, an estimate was made as to what it would cost. The reality is there has been a much higher cost simply because the work is expansive. There's a lot of work that goes into all of these proc

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. One of the things that is unique about PCO is that its exact mandate changes as time goes on. At this point, it has four different ministers who are supported, and the Prime Minister is also the minister of youth. This funding is really to recognize that fact. We rece

Government Operations committee  It wasn't in the main estimates because we didn't have funding approval at that point. We put a funding proposal in place for a number of items, including for the ministers' offices.

Government Operations committee  The departmental plan is based on approved levels from Treasury Board.

Government Operations committee  Are you speaking specifically of the commission or for all of the different pieces?

Government Operations committee  The funding for that was, again, originally $53 million over three fiscal years. At the time at which the departmental plan and the main estimates were tabled, a decision had not yet been made as to an extension. In addition to that reality, we had not quantified what that dollar

Government Operations committee  That was the plan as of that moment.