Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank the witnesses for joining us today.
This is quite an intricate topic, and so is your presentation. Here is how I see things: we vote on a budget and then we vote on the process, on how the money is spent. We are talking about $250 billion here. Have you estimated how many hours we would need to get a better idea of all the spending areas we are voting on? That is a huge number of hours. If it takes us 250 days per year to do it, our work as parliamentarians will run into a logistics problem.
What solutions do you suggest so that things are more intelligible for everyone's sake, but also doable in a reasonable time? I don't think we have all the training we need to study budgets that are as intricate as that.