Government Operations committee  The transition is indeed underway.

Government Operations committee  The funds are indeed earmarked for the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Treasury Board Secretariat to enable it to assign individuals to provide leadership for the implementation of a cloud strategy. These individuals are working with Statistics Canada, the Depa

Government Operations committee  As stated, each department is responsible for its departmental plan. We certainly do expect to meet the targets from year to year. Various initiatives will move forward, and we hope to achieve the results every year.

Government Operations committee  We are not responsible for every program in a given department. It is up to the department to meet their program objectives and to report on them.

Government Operations committee  We work very closely with each department to ensure that they take concrete and realistic measures. In many cases, when programs are developed, people are a bit ambitious about the measures to be taken. Our objective is to work with each department to help them establish concret

Government Operations committee  The information in the departmental plan is taken from the main estimates. In this case, the decrease in full-time equivalents is related to the reduction in programs. Programs are ending, but they will be renewed, and the future budget will reflect that. At that point, the full-

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. These are all voted authorities, so $160,000 reflects collective agreements entirely. This is covered from previous collective agreements. We're bringing the funds in through supplementary estimates (C).

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll start with your question with respect to PCO's contribution towards the greening government fund. This is a contribution that departments that generate over 1,000 tonnes of GHGs are required to provide to the fund. The contribution from PCO is their no

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. In fact, Bill S-6 will also change the paper process to a more digital process. It will also enable business innovation through a regulatory sandbox. Finally, it will make changes to our zero-emission vehicles. As the minister indicated, there are a lot o

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, maybe I can take some of this question. The money that we have under vote 10 is actually for horizontal disbursement. For example, the $24 million that my colleague Ms. Boudreau spoke to with respect to damages represents money that, once the department has paid out t

Government Operations committee  I would offer that we have more horizontal initiatives.

Government Operations committee  In those cases the money that we will disburse from vote 10 is not known at the time we go to the board. Therefore we set aside some money.

Government Operations committee  No, we do know what the money is for.

Government Operations committee  We do not know the amounts that will be required by the departments.

Government Operations committee  As stated by the minister in the first hour, Bill S-6 will offer more, make it easier for businesses to do business across borders. It will provide a more digital environment for Canadians to deal with our Canadian business. This bill will also ensure that we are able to make it