Government Operations committee  In principle, if it accounts for defence spending, it would be included in here. If it's a loan, I don't think that would be included.

Government Operations committee  It would be included, yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes, that's correct. With respect to our projections, the major parts of that cost estimate come in mostly at the end of this five-year window, so it doesn't have a huge effect.

Government Operations committee  We actually didn't have.... We requested information from Fisheries and Oceans. They didn't provide us with a breakdown of what was in that $1.3 billion estimate at the start. Our exercise was to come up with an independent cost estimate with the project for where it was now, rat

Government Operations committee  It's a very good question. I would think it's best directed to the ministry in question. I have not worked directly with the CIF, the capital investment fund. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  These inflation rates were from the “Economic and Fiscal Outlook—March 2022”. As for the exact figures, I don't have those in front of me.

Government Operations committee  It is, more or less. Without having the data that this committee just passed a motion for us to retrieve, it's hard to break down exactly what makes up that difference. I should also point out that the change that occurred in 2017 was something that was done at National Defence

Government Operations committee  It's difficult to say. There are elements of transfers from our government to other organizations that are counted, but we don't have a breakdown of that.

Government Operations committee  It uses Statistics Canada data.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely.

Government Operations committee  Operating costs are included.

Government Operations committee  Yes, it should be straightforward.

Government Operations committee  It's difficult to know beforehand what the impact of this economy-wide inflation regime we've now entered would be on defence-specific inflation. Thus far, we've assumed that the defence-specific inflation would increase along with the economy-wide inflation, not as a function of