Let me go through a table, Mr. Chairman, that highlights my frustration with the estimates.
If you take a look at the estimates for 2012-13 and the estimates comparison, you'll see they indicate that the estimates are going to go up by $1.1 billion, or 0.5%. This is usually the headline number that the President of the Treasury Board comes out with to say, “Look how we've controlled spending”.
But that's not a proper comparison, because of course the estimates for 2012-13 include a lot of the supplementary estimates that were tabled in the previous year. You're comparing apples and oranges.
If you then compare the full estimates for the previous year to the estimates of the current year, suddenly you have a $7.1 billion decline in estimates now, or a 2.5% to 2.6% change. That's not a legitimate comparison either, because you know there are going to be supplementary estimates during the course of the upcoming fiscal year, which is going to raise that number. When—