Government Operations committee  That's correct. In December the Canadian Gender Budgeting Act passed. Under that act, there's a requirement for the Minister of Finance to look at incremental measures and to do GBA+ assessments. A gender budgeting document accompanied the last budget, and it did these kinds of a

Government Operations committee  Collecting—

Government Operations committee  Collecting data, and the addition of an extra FTE. It will work towards trying to get better administrative-level data from programs, and working with other departments to ensure that better administrative-level data is able to sync with StatsCan data in a way that will allow bet

Government Operations committee  It will be an extra FTE, but also—

Government Operations committee  Full-time equivalent, so an extra person. It will also go towards whatever data implementation is necessary for doing that. There are certain data activities that will be required, and working with the departmental community—possibly consultations and so forth—and so those funds

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Thank you for this question, Mrs. Vignola. As the president mentioned, the vote has existed in the tool kit for many years as an essential vote to provide for government-wide initiatives. It all depends on which initiatives are coming forward. If you look at what'

Government Operations committee  Sure, I'll be quick. Mr. Green, just on your question, the funding is effectively a broad range of capital investments in defence capabilities, including about 277 previously planned projects and an additional 52 new projects. The funds requested in the supplementary estimates

Government Operations committee  I'll suspend the prepared statement, in view of the time.

Government Operations committee  I can talk to you a bit about Shared Services Canada, SSC, and the reference levels for Shared Services Canada in its discharge and responsibility.

Government Operations committee  I'm saying that we have a minister for digital who will be appearing with the team, so it would be....

Government Operations committee  If you look at the sheet for Shared Services Canada in the main estimates and in supplementary estimates (B), which we're discussing here, for capital expenditures they spend about $429 million per year. I don't have this actually broken down by specific IT measure and capital—

Government Operations committee  —and there's a certain portion of the operating that would probably go to services as well.

Government Operations committee  I think the answer to that question probably would be more appropriate coming during the appearance of the Minister of Digital Government, who has the purview for it and who could actually speak to that issue. I'm happy to pass along the question so that there's an informed resp

Government Operations committee  Right.

Government Operations committee  I believe you have them. I'll pass to my colleague Karen Cahill, who is the CFO of the department.