Government Operations committee  For the purposes of this report, the horizontal is where departments are asking for initiatives that are common among a number of departments. We summarize it for you, so you can get a sense of how much money is actually being spent on that initiative by all departments. Otherwis

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I can add to that. The Standing Orders specify three supply periods in a fiscal year. They end in March, in June, and in December. You can table supply legislation only one time during that supply period. The next supply period after June is in December. That's why you

Government Operations committee  All of them are listed.

Government Operations committee  The $5 million has been the threshold for as long as I can remember. For at least 10 to 15 years it has been set at that level. What you are going to see is that in any department, it's usually the agencies that have relatively small capital budgets. You're not going to set up a

Government Operations committee  With regard to the Auditor General, most of the concerns the Auditor General was expressing were regarding the use of Treasury Board vote 5 for grant payments. There was one in particular following 9/11, in which there was a grant payment that was made to Transport Canada to supp

Government Operations committee  I'm Laura Danagher. I'm the executive director of the expenditure operations and estimates directorate. I work for David in the expenditure management sector. My area is responsible for producing the main and supplementary estimates.