Translation of "Rapport comparatif des données prévues et réelles " (French → English) :

(e) Efficiency and service quality in electricity supply and grid operation: This criterion shall be measured by assessing the level of losses in transmission and in distribution networks, the ratio between minimum and maximum electricity demand within a defined time period, the demand side participation in electricity markets and in energy efficiency measures, the percentage utilisation (i.e. average loading) of electricity network components, the availability of network components (related to planned and unplanned maintenance) and its impact on network performances, and the actual availability of network capacity with respect to its st ...[+++]andard value.

(Return tabled) Question No. 826 Ms. Olivia Chow: With regard to government resources allocated to research into sideguards on trucks: (a) listed annually for fiscal years 2006 to 2012, what are the resources allocated for researching, collecting, analyzing and evaluating data, broken down by (i) hours allocated, (ii) expenditures, including but not limited to personnel costs, fees, and research investments; (b) what are the (i) rationale, (ii) costs, (iii) planning and exact timelines for Phase II and Phase III of the National Research Council-conducted research work, with specific details about completion dates of ...[+++]the research work for each phase, draft completion dates, report approval and planned and actual publication dates; (c) what are the planned and budgeted time and resource allocation for truck-sideguard-related research work for the fiscal years 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015, including information on the funding source(s) or, in the case of an absence of detailed planning, the rationale and decision-making process; (d) what are the planning and decision-making processes for truck-sideguard-related research and policy work in terms of (i) involved entities, including but not limited to Transport Canada, internal and external government institutions, departments, groups, sub-groups, and individuals, (ii) projected and actual timelines, (iii) involvement of external entities including consultants, experts, research organizations, lawyers, lobbyists, industry associations, companies and civic groups and individuals, broken down by name, dates of involvement, duration of involvement, nature and scope of involvement, involvement in outcomes and results; and (e) from 2006 to the present, who are the external entities involved in any part of the research or decision-making process, including consultants, experts, research organizations, lawyers, lobbyists, industry associations, companies and civic groups and other individuals, broken down b ...

We have compared what we said we would do in the budget of 1995 with what actually happened, and the difference over four years is barely $100 million out of the $9.7 billion which we said we would achieve through program review.

So it means of course that since 1993, actual experience, like 1994 and 1995 and so on.since the first report was prepared in February 1995 there's been some actual experience on the benefits side, on the contribution side and so on, but they could not be taken into account by the chief actuary in order to do projections for the future.

The fourth recommendation related to the government that is of interest to us here is that any changes in those program-based forecasts or actual versus forecasts should be explained in the departmental documents, Reports on Plans and Priorities and departmental performance reports; again, a theme of information related to programs.

In order to increase the public's understanding of the committee budgets and expenditures, your subcommittee recommends the following: that starting at the 41-2 parliamentary session, post-activity expenditure reports be tabled with the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration by the subcommittee responsible for committee budgets at least annually, and that these reports be tabled in the Senate as reports of the Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration — and see the appendix for the template of the post-expenditure report; and that in the event that journalists request information with respect ...[+++]to committee travel expenses earlier than the next projected posting time, Senate Communications be authorized to provide the information that would be normally included in the post-activity expenditure report but only after the appropriate consultation with the Committees Directorate and the Finance and Procurement Directorate to confirm that the actual expenditures for a given activity have been finalized and after approval by the appropriate subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration.