Government Operations committee  My understanding of the budgeting process—and I am new at Finance, so I haven't been through the process yet—is that it starts coming in in the fall, but it does vary from one year to another. There is no confirmation until the start of the new calendar year. There are no approva

Government Operations committee  There are frameworks, but there are no approvals that have been done yet.

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately, I am not part of that process, so I cannot speak to that.

Finance committee  Earlier, when I was asked about the new main estimates process and how it impacted our current process, I only addressed the interim side. I didn't address the mains side. The fact that we'll be producing the mains later in the process will make the information in those mains mo

Finance committee  There are no others in our requests. Some amounts could be adjusted or made more specific, but this is the only case of this kind where we have an amount of one dollar.

Finance committee  We have to submit our funding requests regularly. We have to clarify and document it all, and that adds to the administrative process in the department. However, it puts us in a more stable position in handling the requests in the main estimates. Basically, it has not had a majo

Finance committee  As I understand your question, you want to know why we are asking for only 25% of the funds.

Finance committee  A number of the expenditures that we have to make are long term. I understand your point of view that, by requesting funds pursuant to paragraph 32(1)(b) of the Financial Administration Act, we could be faced with a requirement to spend that money. When we enter into contracts, w

Finance committee  We did update the numbers in the statutories. They're not included as part of these interims today, but they were updated, based on the rules behind those transfer payments.

Finance committee  We'll be seeing that in the main estimates.

Finance committee  I can speak to that. The costs are set-up costs, because that's the stage they're in within their organization, so there will be permanent costs related to the organization in the future as they get into the future stages of the program. They are staffing up, but those staff will

Finance committee  No. These are staffing—

Finance committee  This is about getting their building and their location.

Finance committee  It has been $0.4 million every year.

Finance committee  The payments from the Department of Finance to the Infrastructure Bank or are you talking about the cash flows out of the Infrastructure Bank?