I've had a request to talk about the Magna Carta, and I must say that I think our leader is perhaps a greater expert on the Magna Carta than I.
I'll continue with this paragraph, the first paragraph of “Committee review” of governing documents:
Parliament exercises authority over government financial administration through enabling legislation, such as an appropriations act, and by reviewing financial documentation, such as the Main Estimates (parts I, II, and III) and the Public Accounts of Canada.
We're told we can't use props in the House but we can use props here. I think this is an adequate prop. Do you know what? I'm not even sure the Minister of Finance could count all of the pages in this act it's so thick and big, amending 51 acts, but we're trying to hold her to account in a measly two hours to ask a few questions.
“In the Main Estimates,” as this document says, “the government presents Parliament with spending proposals for a fiscal year and provides details on individual programs and on the plans and performance of departments and agencies.”
It is true that the estimates do not amend things, as this supposed bill does, such as the design of the king's crown in an emblem for our new king. That supposedly changes some of the symbols from what they were. Some religious symbols are being removed to, I assume, make it a non-sectarian sort of thing and they are being replaced with a snowflake. Snowflakes are replacing the images of a snowflake. That aside—