Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the officials for being here this morning. I appreciate your input today and earlier as part of our study.
I'll certainly speak for myself. I think all of our recommendations were obviously important. I think that the two most important ones were, first of all, looking at ways to better synchronize the budget with the main estimates. As you can probably sense, there's some disappointment around the table that we weren't able to make progress there. I think we would all urge you to continue to look at ways to somehow better make that link to increase transparency and understandability.
We are making progress on the second important recommendation, and I'm particularly pleased about that. I think it was one of the major themes that we heard through the study, and that was to review estimates by program activity. I want to focus my questions on this particular topic.
As I understand it, much of the information in terms of reviewing by program activity already exists in many respects. I think we heard that through the study. The work involved, the onerousness of this change, involves a change to the vote structure, as I understand it.
Could you just elaborate on that, why that's the complex part of this task, and what will be different in the new world versus today?