Canada

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The government said the cost-cutting initiative excluded agents of Parliament and small organizations with budgets under $25 million a year.

In the 2023 budget, released in April, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said promised reductions in government spending would "represent savings of $15.4 billion over the next five years."

The government's supplementary estimates, meanwhile, give DND an additional one-time transfer of $1.5 billion — $500 million of it for military aid to Ukraine.

"This is just the first tranche of the results relating to our spending review," Treasury Board President Anita Anand told reporters on her way into question period.

The government has for months touted its plan to rein in spending, trim travel costs and cut the sums spent on professional services by outside contractors.

"Departments were asked to review programming and operations to identify where there might be duplication, lower value for money, or misalignment with government priorities," it wrote.

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