Thank you Mr. Chair. I want to thank our witnesses for their testimony. As a relatively new parliamentarian—I was elected in 2011—one of the things my colleague, Linda Duncan, mentioned earlier is that for a new member of Parliament it can be rather vexing to be able to understand the scope.
One of the things I did informally was speak to people like Mr. Wallace and Mr. Braid and asked Mr. Cannan as well how best to read the estimates.
First of all I should point out that I really like the graphics that are starting to be included in the estimates process. You quickly find out 60% of the money that comes in to the federal government goes out in transfers to provinces and people. Fifty per cent of the money that comes in comes from income taxes. Those kinds of things I think are very helpful for the average person to understand.
I'm going to follow up on the line of thinking of that of my colleague Mr. Wallace. In fact, I like to call Mr. Wallace “Mr. Wow Us” because sometimes he wows us with his knowledge on the estimates.
Year one on your implementation plan you highlight a number of different things. Before I get to the implementation plan, it says that you surveyed and received a response from 80 out of 130 different agencies that are on the appropriations list. Is that correct?
Were there any informal discussions with the other remaining ones that had not included a response?