It is just that it is actually specified in the detailed vote wording that the operating expenditures vote, for example, or the program expenditures vote, is authority to spend appropriations directly on operating functions but also to re-spend the revenues that they collect rather than to leave them deposited in the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

In the past three years, the government refused to move vote 5 money to vote 1 — that is, move capital money to Vote 1, operations — and essentially cut those monies from National Defence in its operations and its overall budget expenditures of the year.

1. By 30 September of each year, the Director shall submit to the Board an annual draft budget for SATCEN covering administrative expenditure, operational expenditure and expected income, including earmarked revenue, for the following financial year as well as long-term indicative estimates on expenditure and income in view of the draft long-term work programme.

1. By 31 October of each year, the Director shall submit to the Board a draft annual budget for the Institute covering administrative expenditure, operational expenditure and expected income, including additional contributions for specific projects referred to in Article 10(3).

Vote 1a Operating expenditures, and (a) expenditures on works, buildings and equipment; and expenditures and recoverable expenditures in respect of services provided and work performed on other than federal property; (b) authority to provide, in respect of Indian and Inuit economic development activities, for the capacity development for Indian and Inuit and the furnishing of materials and equipment; (c) authority to sell electric power to private consumers in remote locations when alternative local sources of supply are not available, in accordance with terms and conditions approved by the Governor in Council; and (d) the payment to ...[+++] each member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada who is a Minister without Portfolio or a Minister of State who does not preside over a Ministry of State of a salary not to exceed the salary paid to Ministers of State who preside over Ministries of State under the Salaries Act, as adjusted pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act and pro rata for any period of less than a year – To authorize the transfer of $11,881,171 from Industry Vote 1, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2007-2008 for the purposes of this Vote and to provide a further amount of.$13,990,992

The other is reprofiling from operations to capital votes 1 and 5 or, vice versa, from taking out of capital to keep things operating and the role of Parliament in relation to reprofiling and what the department can do.