Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for your presentation, Mr. Jordan. It was succinct, but crystal clear.
Like most of my colleagues here, I am concerned at the lack of transparency in the tools with which we are supposed to check on the way in which money is spent. I find the process to be both very long and extremely complex. In a lot of cases, it is spread out over 18 months, which prevents us from comparing the documents that are submitted to us. For example, the upcoming main estimates will have no connection to the budget that will be presented at about the same time. Those two documents were actually not prepared at the same time, by Treasury Board on the one hand or by the Department of Finance on the other.
Do you feel that this problem of timing is a major one in our work? Could we not give some consideration to putting off passing the budget until the fall in order to be more logical and coherent?