Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I think probably Mr. Ermuth is referring to a colleague at the OCG who might be better placed to answer that question. We would be happy to get back to with an answer on that.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Ermuth.

Government Operations committee  That is correct—and actually for the departmental plans and departmental results reports as well.

Government Operations committee  I believe there was a change in the policy pertaining to it that would apply to what departments are obliged to report in the departmental plans and departmental results reports, but I think what we should do is—

Government Operations committee  No, there are often guidelines that are provided to departments on the preparation of their departmental plans and their departmental results reports.

Government Operations committee  I think what we're referring to is related to the $2.4 billion that was listed. Perhaps, Mr. Ermuth, you have a better line of sight on this and are able to answer Ms. Vignola's question.

Government Operations committee  That's correct. Our collection of this through the CFO community, working with departments, has been an ongoing effort. We started doing it through Excel, but we moved into our system of Titan, which allowed for a more efficient data collection exercise starting in September. I

Government Operations committee  Sure. Just to be consistent with what I mentioned before, our interest was in ensuring that, [Technical difficulty—Editor] incremental spending, the government [Technical difficulty—Editor]. As we were going to be looking at estimated expenditures, we wanted to be able to map the

Government Operations committee  Sorry, Ms. Vignola, but when you say “targets”, are you talking about the actual spending authorities that have been set out?

Government Operations committee  I do not recall making that statement, Mr. McCauley.

Government Operations committee  Mr. McCauley, in the seven days that we were to respond to your request, we were able to focus on the $123 billion—

Government Operations committee  —in spending. We have no objection—

Government Operations committee  We have data in Titan to be able to respond in a disaggregated fashion to that request, and we have no objections—

Government Operations committee  But we have comments attached to all of that, and to provide a fulsome response we would need to translate the comments to enable us to provide that complete picture. We will do this as soon as we possibly can. Our commitment is to ensure that we're providing—

Government Operations committee  There was never any intention to try to skirt around this committee—never.