Finance committee  With regard to today's PBO report, we actually took some pride in the conclusions made by the PBO. It found that the government has continued to act in terms of this project on a commercial basis, and that the likely outcome is that the government is looking at a net present valu

Finance committee  Between the article and the previous question, there have been a lot of numbers that have been indicated. What I would suggest on this is that we follow up on research with respect to your question, Mr. Julian. We would be happy to follow up in writing to help make things clearer

Finance committee  All I wish to add on that question is with respect to the HASCAP, which is the newer highly affected sectors credit program. That was just launched at the end of January. At this point, finance officials.... I don't have information regarding take-up at my disposal, but that woul

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for your question. A number of the details you asked for are difficult to provide today, especially as regards expenditures to date. I recommend following up with the committee in writing. That way, we can provide more detailed information. The budget

Finance committee  Clearly, I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of all the federal programs, but I do know that support is available for research and technology through the granting councils. The industrial research assistance program, or IRAP for short, is available. Some new programs were just

Finance committee  Sure. I can start.

Finance committee  I was pausing to see if my colleague, Mr. Marsland, wanted to reply as well, but perhaps we can share in our response if we have different things to say. There are actually new or enhanced program announcements for Budget 2021 that will be available to new businesses or those th

Finance committee  The elements that I've described are available to new businesses.

Finance committee  Thank you. With respect to expenditures to date on the Trans Mountain expansion project, the best source of information is the publicly available reporting by the Canada Development Investment Corporation. It is actually the parent Crown corporation of Trans Mountain Corporation

Finance committee  Sure, I'm happy to take that question, although I'm not sure I'll have a more satisfactory response. The HASCAP is delivered by the Business Development Bank of Canada, so information on the take-up of that program, its application pipeline and its traction in the business commun

Public Accounts committee  To keep the answer brief, for all of the funding decisions that are communicated in budgets for the Canadian Gender Budgeting Act, there is GBA+ that's disclosed in the impact report, so we can follow up with information to address your question.

Public Accounts committee  I probably will cede the floor to people who may have more precision, but I can offer a first-level response. Of course, Crown corporations were involved in the delivery of COVID programming to some extent. That is trickling through the financials, and their circumstances are i

Finance committee  I'm not quite sure about the question left with me. There's a comment about the fall economic statement. We reported $3.8 billion of savings against a $3-billion commitment. We're quite confident the measure in the budget will result in the savings announced. A process will be l

Finance committee  With respect to the forward-looking measures in the budget and the 3% reduction you speak of, this is very much a forward-looking exercise with the intent of adjusting the budgets of the departments and other entities that are within scope.

Finance committee  I guess all I can offer on that type of question is that there are two different savings measures announced in budget 2023. One of them is the 3% reduction in professional services, which is a forward-looking exercise. There's a second measure, which is a realigning of previously