In that case, I'm going to ask you another question—and I say this for the record, it's not about the content. It's about the form.
Today, we saw $3 billion in expenditures added to the budget. That was unanticipated. How does the Department of Finance see this being managed on a piecemeal, day‑to‑day basis? It's been three months since the budget was drawn up and tabled. Now we have $3 billion in unexpected new expenditures on top of that.
As a manager, how can you deal with that if you're getting these kinds of requests day to day, not knowing if there are going to be further expenditures of $3 billion, $5 billion or $10 billion next week? How can you govern at the Department of Finance?
