Government Operations committee  I'll kick in just from the broader vantage point. I think the root of your issue is, why aren't indicators either better indicators or more specific, or why is there ambiguity around this?

Government Operations committee  I would say—

Government Operations committee  I wouldn't characterize it like that. I think that the policy on results was put into place in 2016, and as part of that, every department has to create its departmental results framework. It has to identify the indicators that are most useful and most measurable to be able to ac

Government Operations committee  I would say that, as more time goes on, you're going to have more refinement in a lot of these indicators, because you tend to have more experience with the actual data behind them, and over time you tend to have a narrowing of indicators, as well, in terms of ones that you find

Government Operations committee  The net cost is zero because the expectation is that people will use those days.

Government Operations committee  Again, there's a liability attributed to it, but the liability is then unwound.

Government Operations committee  Just to be clear, there are circumstances where employees have left the public service and were paid out—

Government Operations committee  They would be cashed out. For those who work 24-7—Correctional Services employees and so forth—where if someone's not there, they have to have somebody else in place....

Government Operations committee  No. I'm just saying that it's not a simple calculation. I was happy to go through that last week.

Government Operations committee  Let me just describe what the definition of vote 10 is. It's subject to the approval of the Treasury Board to supplement other appropriations in support of the implementation of strategic management initiatives in the public service of Canada. Broad strategic initiatives over t

Government Operations committee  The LNG—

Government Operations committee  When you look historically, you'll see there are many factors that could influence the use of vote 10. One of them is if there are more initiatives being pursued that have horizontality in them, in the sense that they touch many different departments, that is one thing that could

Government Operations committee  I can't comment on the timing of each of these precise issues, but the intention is to ensure that the supply is there such that when the Treasury Board submission goes through—

Government Operations committee  I'm happy to provide information on what I know with respect to that LNG item. As you know, it's still in the main estimates and it's still contained under vote 10.

Government Operations committee  I'll just read it. The $40 billion LNG Canada project represents the single largest private investment project in Canadian history—