Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for coming in.
When we undertook this study last year looking at the estimates process, it was not the first time that the government operations and estimates committee had looked at it. In the past, I think it was 10 years ago, and yet again, I think it was 17 or 18 years ago, the committee looked at that, and there were some recommendations made. But things weren't implemented. It's very encouraging to see the government now actually implementing some changes to the estimates process and the supply process to make things more accountable.
One of the witnesses came in at one time and showed us a book of main estimates from the 1880s, and they looked very similar to what the main estimates look like today. In other words, we've been dealing with the same system in place for about 145 years. So it's very encouraging. It's a series of small changes that collectively you'd call a transformation.
Can you maybe talk about some of the behaviours that would change in Parliament, and then what this means for Canadians, things like putting in three years of history, three years forward in the RPPs, the move to the program activity view of the estimates? What will that change in Parliament?