To cut down on the wasteful year end spending practices that we often read about in the Auditor General's annual reports, departments were allowed to carry forward from one fiscal year to the next 2 per cent of their operating budgets. There was therefore no need to rush out and purchase computers or lab equipment that departments did not need right away but knew they were going to need in the next fiscal year.
Pour réduire le gaspillage des dépenses de fin d'année que le vérificateur général dénonce souvent dans ses rapports annuels, les ministères ont obtenu le droit de reporter 2 p. 100 de leur budget de fonctionnement sur l'exercice financier suivant.
