David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess another question I’d have is how are travel budgets arrived at in your department and in other departments? In the formula that I found consistent through the various departments was you take the number of employees and multiply it by $10,000 and then you arrive at a travel budget. Is that the case? Maybe the Minister can let me know how it is they arrive at a budget because I don’t think there is a budget. That’s what I’m getting at, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to the Minister for answering that question. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My comments are similar to the ones Ms. Lee had. We spoke about this when we went through this a few weeks back, but I will bring it up again in this setting. Can we ask the Minister to go department by department and provide this committee with some information on how many employees the government has in terms of HR function in each department, and what it costs this government and each department to deliver that function? I would like to get a handle on that in terms of what the numbers are and what it is costing the way we are operating today. I do agree that I...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move we report progress.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. We are back on page 3-15, fiscal policy, operations expense, total operations expense, $818,000.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Melhorn.

Thank you, Ms. Melhorn. Ms. Lee.