Minister, when you were responsible for Treasury Board you came with a strong message of transparency and accountability. I'm wondering how you can claim that a $3 billion expenditure....
The three points you've just made here have nothing to do with this $3 billion, if I'm to understand this as the greater part of the budget. I'm wondering how you can make the claim of transparency when in fact you have not given to Canadians or parliamentarians anything more than a request for a blank cheque. How do you expect us to have confidence in what you're doing if we have absolutely no idea how that money is to be allocated?
Your department tends to have the first crack at these things, particularly given that it had $3 billion left over from the previous budget that it didn't use.