Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2020-03-10 10:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Glenn Purves",
        "fr": "M. Glenn Purves"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6107187\" data-originallang=\"en\">Years ago we would just provide what we call the \u201cvoted amounts\u201d in the main estimates. The government tabled the main estimates last week, and they total about $125 billion. We also provide information on statutory amounts so that Canadians and parliamentarians have a lens of the total spend. Ultimately, what it will be in an appropriation bill for Parliament to vote upon is that $125-billion component of the main estimates. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107188\" data-originallang=\"en\">Those main estimates are based on a cascading series of government decisions that have been taken over time. So you have a stock of this base spending for government operations going forward, but there may be new initiatives that come about through either a budget or a fall economic statement, or just initiatives throughout the year that the government is recommending for approval and that go through Treasury Board. Once that happens, then those supplements, effectively, are brought to bear. Any government that has operated has always operated on the basis of being able to bring forward supplementary spending throughout the year to be able to build on the main estimates based on the priorities of the day, and to deal with the initiatives.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107189\" data-originallang=\"en\">This process has existed since 1867. The broader supply process is probably one of the oldest in government. There are three supply periods designated specifically because there's an expectation that there will be new spending decisions being taken in support of critical services and so forth for Canadians through the year. As such, those supply periods and those supplementary estimates provide the vehicle by which parliamentarians can consider them and be able to vote on them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107190\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is standard practice that has existed for a long time, and it's probably very similar in the Ontario system.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6107187\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a de cela plusieurs ann\u00e9es, on ne faisait que fournir ce qu'on appelle des \u00ab cr\u00e9dits \u00bb dans le budget principal des d\u00e9penses. Le gouvernement a d\u00e9pos\u00e9 le budget principal des d\u00e9penses la semaine pass\u00e9e, qui s'\u00e9l\u00e8ve \u00e0 environ 125 milliards de dollars. Nous fournissons \u00e9galement des renseignements sur des montants l\u00e9gislatifs pour que les Canadiens et les parlementaires aient une id\u00e9e des d\u00e9penses totales. Au final, un projet de loi de cr\u00e9dits sur lequel le Parlement devra se prononcer sera le montant de 125 milliards de dollars du Budget principal des d\u00e9penses.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107188\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce budget principal des d\u00e9penses se fonde sur une s\u00e9rie successive de d\u00e9cisions du gouvernement qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 prises au fil du temps. On a donc ces d\u00e9penses de base pour les op\u00e9rations gouvernementales futures, mais il peut y avoir de nouvelles initiatives qui sont propos\u00e9es par l'entremise d'un budget ou d'un \u00e9nonc\u00e9 \u00e9conomique de l'automne, ou seulement des initiatives qui sont propos\u00e9es au cours de l'ann\u00e9e que le gouvernement recommande d'approuver ou qui sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es au Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor. Lorsque cela se produit, ces suppl\u00e9ments sont mis \u00e0 contribution. Tous les gouvernements ont toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 en mesure de demander des d\u00e9penses suppl\u00e9mentaires au cours de l'ann\u00e9e pour pouvoir faire fond sur le Budget principal des d\u00e9penses en fonction des priorit\u00e9s de l'heure, ainsi que pour g\u00e9rer les initiatives.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107189\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce processus existe depuis 1867. Le processus d'approvisionnement global est probablement l'un des plus vieux au gouvernement. Il y a trois p\u00e9riodes de subsides pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment d\u00e9sign\u00e9es parce que l'on s'attend que de nouvelles d\u00e9cisions concernant les d\u00e9penses seront prises pour appuyer les services essentiels, notamment, pour les Canadiens au cours de l'ann\u00e9e. Par cons\u00e9quent, ces p\u00e9riodes de subsides et ces budgets suppl\u00e9mentaires des d\u00e9penses sont les m\u00e9canismes qui permettent aux parlementaires de les examiner et de se prononcer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107190\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est une pratique standard qui existe depuis longtemps, qui est probablement tr\u00e8s semblable \u00e0 celle en place dans le syst\u00e8me ontarien.</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/environment/43-1/5/glenn-purves-7/",
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