I will do so with pleasure, Mr. Ste‑Marie.
The recommendation I made has to do with the government's timing for tabling the main estimates. Since I've been in office, I've spoken several times about the way the government funds itself. The bill is such that current expenditures authorized by Parliament must be tabled before March 1. It is indeed tabled before March 1, but it almost always precedes the budget announcement. Parliamentarians are therefore asked to vote on funding and government operations, but the government tables its budget after they have that piece of legislation in hand. It means that, in the supplementary estimates, the main estimates, you don't see the entirety of government expenditures, which must be corrected through the supplementary estimates. You're asked to vote on government expenditures for the year to come before you can even know the government's priorities.
One way of simplifying things would be to ensure that the budget is tabled in February, for example, on a predetermined date or within a predetermined window. It would allow you to have the budget in hand, and then get the bill that includes the government's expenditures, meaning the government's operating costs and budgetary initiatives. You would have a better idea of the government's operations and expenditures, meaning the funds it needs to function and to keep its promises. It would be more logical to have the budget first, and then the bill asking for the funds to keep the commitments made in the budget.