Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to sit in on the committee today. Welcome to the guests here.
We come to a process like this and everybody starts focusing on I think some of the small specifics of individual savings that have been identified. I keep coming back to the broader context of what a budget is like.
Of course, at home, I have a family, and we just bought a new home, actually, in Amherstburg. Many of the principles we apply in the home I guess we apply to budgets overall. My wife was remodelling a bathroom, for example, and we came in under budget. We had some unused money set aside, and that gave us some choices--to invest in another room in the house, for example. We could do other things with it.
In other words, we were able to deliver on something that we wanted to achieve, and we still had something left over, so it didn't affect our ability to deliver on what we wanted.
To bring it back to what's happening now in the government, is that some of what's happened through this process in your own department?