Before you go any further, Mr. Chair, if I could interrupt you, one of our own recommendations from our previous study of doing a better analysis of the estimates is that we have the plans and priorities dealt with now. In our view, that should be prior to the estimates. We want to deal with the plans and priorities knowing what they are, and then seeing if the estimates match the proposed plans and priorities for spending for the upcoming fiscal year.
I think we're putting the cart before the horse and ignoring our own analysis of doing a better job of following the money. You plan and you set priorities. Then you put the dollar figure to those priorities. Then you put them in a budget. Then you spend the money. Then you study it at public accounts. That was the path we charted out and we wanted to see. We were happy to see the budget come in earlier this year because that frankly helps, I think, with that timeframe.
Do we expect the plans and priorities to accompany the estimates, or to be simultaneous with them, or what?