Thank you for that question.
The answer is an administrative one. In years past we would submit the supplementary estimates (B) to Treasury Board, and Treasury Board would then forward them on to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. This year the rules were changed; the directions were changed. The department was advised that they should be forwarded within five days of the tabling of the supplementary estimates (B) documents.
My deputy can explain, but officials in the department understood that to be five working days and that the deadline was today. They have been submitted today. You're quite right. They've been prepared. They were ready. They've been submitted. It was simply a difference in administrative interpretation of the new process of submission.
Bob.