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The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (Secretariat) centrally manages Votes to perform its statutory responsibilities for managing the government's financial, human and materiel resources. Planned spending in the Secretariat's Program Activity 5: Government-Wide Funds and Public Service Employer Payments relates mainly to the following Vote:
Vote 20—Public Service Insurance
This Vote, which supports the Treasury Board's role as employer, is used for the following:
Other contingency funds are available to other government departments, if required, and expenditures will be identified under their program activities. The following Votes are therefore excluded from the Secretariat's planned spending:
Vote 5—Government Contingencies
This Vote provides the government with the authority and flexibility to meet unforeseen or urgent expenditures until parliamentary approval can be obtained. Most of the items in this Vote are considered temporary advances to cover items that will be included in subsequent Supplementary Estimates for other departments and agencies, and reimbursed when the associated appropriation Act is passed.
Vote 10—Government-Wide Initiatives
This Vote supplements other departments and agencies' appropriations that support the implementation of strategic management initiatives across the public service. Historically, this Vote has been used to support such initiatives as Government Online, comptrollership innovation and modernization, the Financial Information Strategy, employment equity and program evaluation and internal audit.
Vote 25—Operating Budget Carry Forward
This Vote allows for routine operating budget carry-forward (OBCF) amounts, as established under the OBCF policy, to be transferred directly to departments and agencies, in a timely manner, once eligible amounts have been confirmed by the Secretariat and approved by Treasury Board ministers.
Vote 30—Paylist Requirements
This Vote covers departments and agencies' paylist shortfalls related to parental benefits, severance and other allowances. To avoid discrimination in hiring practices, paylist costs related to these expenditures have been provided for centrally since the introduction of the operating budget regime in 1993. This Vote provides relief from the cash management challenges that departments and agencies face for these legal obligations.