Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll try to be brief, but the question for the people from Finance Canada is of a higher level of generality. It comes from my experience of having been in every budget lock-up since 1997, when budgets were shorter but contained more information and were more readable and understandable to Parliamentarians, who are, of course, in theory.... Parliament controls the public purse.
We used to have at the back of a budget the departmental breakdowns. You could compare department by department, last year to next year and so on. I'm wondering if anyone.... There's been a very consistent criticism, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Democracy and others, that we don't really know where the money's going in any real sense from reading the budget.
I'd love to hear from any of the senior civil servants here if there's any discussion of going back to the way budgets used to be under finance ministers like Paul Martin and Ralph Goodale. I don't think I've seen a budget in the budget since around that time.