Of course. As parliamentarians, you are called upon to vote on the main estimates, i.e., budget appropriations. You are being asked to vote on the main estimates during the months of March and April, when the budget itself has not yet been tabled. So you have budget appropriations that essentially represent the status quo in government spending, what I referred to in a Senate committee as “last year's news”. You're being asked to vote on last year's news, when we all know that a budget tabled by the Minister of Finance will significantly change the game and alter the financial needs of government departments and organizations.
You are therefore being asked to vote on budget appropriations which, as everyone knows, do not reflect reality. The budget changes the game, forcing the government to present supplementary appropriations A, B and, often, C. You don't get a global and accurate picture of the government's financial needs when you vote on the main appropriations. So there's a disconnect between budget appropriations and what's in the budget.