I certainly don't think that there has been a technological regression. A much smaller level of government is the City of Ottawa; its council is a good example of a government producing budgets with a lot more detail than what we find at the federal level. I think there is plenty of work that can be done in terms of making these documents more transparent.
This was my third recommendation: that when major policy changes are introduced, whether those are cuts or increases in programs, those large amounts in those policy changes should be made public to parliamentarians and to Canadians so that they have a good idea of what's happening.
One of the reasons this “The Cuts Behind the Curtain” document was published in the first place was that those estimates aren't available.