There were those challenges, even in a smaller province. For example, at the provincial level the hospitals in New Brunswick were fully consolidated in the province's financial statements. In the main estimates document, there would have been one line for grants to hospitals, which in comparison to the province's total budget would have been a very large number, but the only thing it would have said would have been “grants to hospitals”. So it wouldn't have given members of the legislature any information about the types of services or any of that. Mind you, they would have had the opportunity to ask those types of questions at the committee of supply. You can put only so much detail in a main estimates document, and we had that problem even in our small jurisdiction.
On March 28th, 2012. See this statement in context.