Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member's right, we did initially start to say $20 million. We were able to identify $10 million with direct savings and the Member will recall that we took that out of the departmental budgets in June in Supplementary No. 1. That was actually removed from their spending authority. There was another $5 million that we were going to get from targeted savings and the Minister's just recounted where we expect to get that. Then there's $5 million that we were hoping to achieve through a tightening up of our supplementary appropriation reserves. We've not been able to achieve that for the reasons that have been explained to the Members and the committees because of the forest fire season this year where some of those items are in the supplementary, too, that we will go through as we proceed through the bill. There were more unavoidable supplementary requirements than we anticipated, so we were not able to achieve the final $5 million. Our only savings are $15 million.
Mr. Voytilla on Bill 32: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2003-2004
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Bill 32: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2003-2004
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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