Thank you both for coming here today and helping those of us who are new members work our way through what seems to be a very complicated and difficult area.
There is something I'd like to get clear in my mind, and it was referred to in an earlier question. I appreciate from your presentation that government spending is a huge ship and that when a new government comes in it's very difficult to turn that around. As you've described, there's a real time lag and a whole process to go through with amending budgets and amending the spending for all of the various government departments.
My question is about laws that were passed by the previous government, spending that was allocated, and the oversight of Parliament for spending changes that the current government now intends to make. If money was previously authorized, does the current Parliament have input to change the spending if the current government decides it no longer wishes to continue to spend money in a particular area? What actually comes to Parliament versus what is just made by departmental changes and cuts to spending that we may not see? Can you describe what input we would have in that process?