On page 8, you deal with the appropriations and the basis for votes. There is a list, showing 2,064 programs and 593 program activities. A number of witnesses have suggested studying them program by program. When you look at those numbers and those statistics, you see how huge and tedious a task that would be. I figure that you could get all the committees of Parliament together to study all those programs and we would run out of year before we finished. The next year would be starting. Is there a way of grouping things together? Is what we are doing at the moment the most logical thing that can be done?
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