I couldn't get this working, and my French is not perfect, but I'll try to answer your question.
The one that interests me is the one on the information available to Parliament on the budget and how Parliament can criticize the budget.
I would offer a couple of thoughts on that. The budget process begins in the departments with, I would guess, and I could be corrected on this, not just 10 pages of information for every page in the expenditure estimates, which are well over 500 pages, but probably 100 pages, maybe even more, which Treasury Board and the departments work with to get the budget down. It's a major operation. Thousands of man-hours of time go into creating the budget estimates.
Parliament has a problem there. There are two sides to it.
One is that the information they have on the expenditure estimates is very limited compared to what's available to the government. The second, to make it very simple, is time and human resources. As I say, this is a huge process of going back and forth between departments and central agencies and producing an expenditure budget. There's a huge investment commitment on the budget when it's presented to Parliament.
The system has evolved. We live in it. The government and the departments themselves and the people involved inside are very resistant to changes from the parliamentary side, to the point that they're almost unheard of.
If Parliament—the House of Commons, of course—wants to look at this more closely and do something, Parliament should set up a schedule of devoting a large part of a committee's time or some committees' time to a budget over a couple of years to try to get to a point where they could influence it.
Within the vote structure there is no problem. Parliament can, within a vote, recommend changes and propose them. But they actually have to be approved by Parliament. There is nothing that constitutionally prevents Parliament there, except the very powerful feeling that exists within both the government and the departments that it's their money and their budget, not Parliament's.