Evidence of meeting #125 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was community.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Thanks, Ms. Atwin, that was right on time. Thank you very much.
Witnesses, thank you very much.
Mr. Ettinger, it's been a pleasure to have you with us for the first time, but before you pack up, I just have a couple of quick things to say, if you don't mind.
First of all, I appreciate what you've brought up about the rapid change that's been happening over the years. I was part of this study eight years ago and it's funny because, Ernst & Young, with their forecast then, were quite loudly denounced as scaremongering. It turns out that they under-forecast the loss. So I'm glad that you were able to address that.
Could you just get back to the committee on how many of your vehicles are stolen every year.
There's also the issue I think of the Universal Postal Union agreement, about Canada Post or Canada subsidizing other countries. That issue also came up in the last study. I understand that it was an issue that we were actually subsidizing mail to China. Could you get back to us on those numbers?
Very briefly I also want to echo some of the comments made by people thanking various folks within Canada Post. There's a chap in Alberta, Donald Cooper, who's been helping us for years. He's Calgary-based, but apart from that, he's a phenomenal gentleman and I wanted to pass on our thanks from Edmonton to Mr. Cooper, through you.
Thank you very much for joining us. I'm going to dismiss you because we're going to get to approving the estimates—funnily enough, the first of which is approving Canada Post's money. So you can stay for that.
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Post Corporation
No. [Inaudible—Editor]
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
I would take a million off for that.
Colleagues, can I have unanimous consent, please, to have all the votes referred to this committee for the main estimates, 2024-2025, carried on division? Wonderful.
CANADA POST CORPORATION
Vote 1—Payments to the Corporation for special purposes..........$22,210,000
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
CANADA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$72,079,894
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
CANADIAN INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$7,295,419
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND SAFETY BOARD
Vote 1—Program expenditures...........$36,450,119
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Vote 1—Operating expenditures..........$3,149,646,689
Vote 5—Capital expenditures..........$1,435,134,559
(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)
NATIONAL CAPITAL COMMISSION
Vote 1—Payments to the Commission for operating expenditures.........$69,456,790
Vote 5—Payments to the Commission for Capital expenditures..........$25,313,046
(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SECRETARY
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$21,988,861
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICER
Vote 1—Operating expenses..........$7,124,435
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR INTEGRITY COMMISSIONER
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$5,503,151
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$221,057,551
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$86,342,136
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
SENATE
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$95,448,409
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
SHARED SERVICES CANADA
Vote 1—Operating expenditures..........$2,147,684,760
Vote 5—Capital expenditures..........$211,553,039
(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)
TREASURY BOARD SECRETARIAT
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$348,204,864
Vote 5—Government Contingencies..........$750,000,000
Vote 10—Government-wide Initiatives..........$18,500,000
Vote 20—Public Service Insurance..........$3,843,672,789
Vote 25—Operating Budget Carry Forward..........$3,000,000,000
Vote 30—Paylist Requirements..........$600,000,000
Vote 35—Capital Budget Carry Forward..........$750,000,000
(Votes 1, 5, 10, 20, 25, 30 and 35 agreed to on division)
Shall I report the estimates back to the House, less the amounts voted in interim supply?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Wonderful, on division. So ordered.
Thank you very much, everyone. I appreciate everyone staying late, and thank you to our clerk and, of course, our valued interpreters and our analysts and all the support people. Thank you for sticking around.
We're adjourned.
