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

Government Operations committee  Right now, because it's still in vote 10, a lot of the program design and a lot of the due diligence in precisely where that $90 million will be allocated are still being worked out.

Government Operations committee  Vote 10 is—

Government Operations committee  Vote 10 is a circumstance where there is a significant strategic project or initiative that covers many departments, so it's a horizontal initiative. Until such time as the submission goes through Treasury Board and the allocation is made to various departments, it's captured u

Government Operations committee  I have additional details on the venture and so forth. I'm happy to provide them, but until such time as it's allocated through Treasury Board, it's very hard for me to be able to say precisely where the funds go in which department, because it does cover a few departments.

Government Operations committee  There are many different cost aspects to that. There's a liability component and then there's the direct cost component. In terms of the liability, I think five days were offered. Of those days, it becomes a contingent liability on the books of Canada for three years. After tha

Government Operations committee  That's the thing. Over the period of time—

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