Question Period Note: 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) – PCH Portfolio organizations

The 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) were tabled on December 5, 2019.

Facts
• The President of the Treasury Board tables the Supplementary Estimates in order to obtain Parliament’s authority to adjust the government's expenditure plan, as reflected in the Estimates for that fiscal year. Funding for these Estimates is provided for in the federal Budget and is therefore built into the existing fiscal framework.
• The Supplementary Estimates seek authority to revise spending levels, which Parliament will be asked to approve in an Appropriation Act. They inform Parliament of changes to the estimated expenditures that will be made under the authority of statutes previously passed by Parliament.

• The 2019–2020 Supplementary Estimates (A) were tabled in Parliament on December 5, 2019. Two Portfolio organizations are included in these Supplementary Estimates.
• Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will receive $3.38 million to administer the LGBT Purge class action settlement agreement. This funding is reprofiled from 2018-19 and LAC will use 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates A to access it. LAC is expending these funds to complete the work of retrieving the personnel files pertaining to this Class Action, digitize files, deliver files to responsible Departments and review the protection of personal information for all former military files in LAC custody.
• Also of note, LAC is transferring a total of $5.1 million from its capital vote to its operating vote. This is an internal reallocation of resources for its Real Property Portfolio in relation to the Gatineau 2 project.
• The transfer is a technical adjustment required to finance the preparation and move of the LAC’s collections, an activity which falls under its operating vote. The work will ensure that the holdings are appropriately identified both physically and within LAC’s collection management system.
• Telefilm Canada will receive $7.5 million in increased support to French-language feature film productions. This one-time increased funding from the fiscal framework will address the challenges the organization faced after a key component of the Telefilm Production Fund was over-subscribed in 2019-20.

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