Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If it is possible, can I possibly have that information before we conclude this department?
Debates of June 30th, 2000
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Thank you. Detail, Minister's office, operations expense, total operations expense, $3,463,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Agreed. Page 2-17, Minister's office, grants and contributions, grants, $123,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Page 2-19, Cabinet secretariat, operations expense, total operations expense, $6,082,000. Mr. Roland.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I stated in my opening comments, the committee was provided some information regarding the growth in this area. I have a breakdown here of the net change between 1999-2000 main estimates, and 2000-2001 Main Estimates, which totals a net change of $1,421,000. In the information provided, there are a number of notes attached; corporate human resources, $587,000. It also says the transfer of training development funds previously budgeted in there for compensation and benefits to other Operations and maintenance. Can we get clarification of that? There are a number of areas. I may as well provide the list instead of doing it one at a time.
Increase number 2 was intergovernmental affairs, $108,000, resulted from an Operations and maintenance reallocation for additional responsibilities. There was corporate services, which says, Operations and maintenance reallocation, that was $75,000. Communication increased as a result of a new initiative, and $167,000 Operations and maintenance funding transferred to the amalgamation. Then the other two are new initiatives. The ones that had Operations and maintenance transferred, can I get a clarification? Is there a corresponding decrease from another area? Because it sounds just like an internal allocation, so it should not have been shown as a growth. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Bird
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member is correct. Those areas where there was Operations and maintenance funding transferred, it has been transferred out of other areas. The one for communications specifically is the transfer of the public affairs function for accounting purposes out of the Ministers' offices and into the Cabinet Secretariat.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
So was that, Mr. Chairman, an equal reduction on that side? Thank you.
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Bird
Yes, Mr. Chairman, there is.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We seemed to have passed that page, but he has made a reference to it. As I look at the numbers, total operations expense on the previous page has not reduced. That is the question I have. Plus he made reference to one area. Are all the other Operations and maintenance transfers in equal reductions in other areas? There is the development funding previously budgeted in error from compensation and benefits to other Operations and maintenance. Increase resulted in Operations and maintenance allocation. That was intergovernmental affairs. The first one was corporate human resources. The fourth one, which was $167,000, was communications. All of those have resulted in an equal drop from the area they were transferred from. Thank you.
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Bird
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The CHRS budget error-correction referred to, yes, the amount was originally budgeted to compensation and benefits in error, and was subsequently transferred during the re-jigging of the budget from compensation and benefits to operations and maintenance. There was no increase in that area. It is just an offset within that area. The same goes with the inter-activity transfers from compensation and benefits. Where savings have been recognized in some compensation and benefits areas, the savings are transferred to offset the Operations and maintenance costs within the same division, and therefore overall there is no increase in the divisional funding for those transfers.
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The Chair David Krutko
Thank you, Mr. Bird. General comments. We are on cabinet secretariat, operations expense, total operations expense, $6,082,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.