Government Operations committee  The funding that was made available to us in budget 2019, as the minister alluded to, was $2.7 million per year on an ongoing basis.

Government Operations committee  We're working with the funding that's been allocated to us.

Government Operations committee  Not quite. In supplementary estimates (A), the main negative amount is a vote transfer, actually. It's an internal transfer between votes. In plain language, it means that we're transferring some money from our capital expenditures to our regular O and M expenditures. You can s

Government Operations committee  The main item under this $2.5 million is actually the charge that.... For every submission that goes in front of the Treasury Board, there's a charge per FTE that's being allocated to Shared Services, and that represents the majority of that amount. It's $700 per FTE, actually.

Government Operations committee  Again, the per-FTE charge covers everything that an employee requires from SSC to perform his work, in terms of a computer, phone, etc.

Government Operations committee  The money goes toward building the infrastructure, so that's the main use of the money. After that, first it goes toward establishing the IT equipment, and then, on an ongoing basis, toward maintaining that equipment and providing the service associated with the data centres them