Prior to this, if I as a parliamentarian were studying a government's new budget initiative, I would be asking questions, either in the main estimates process but more likely in the supplementary estimates process, and I'd be asking questions of a minister or of department officials who had the benefit of having gone through the Treasury Board costing process. They would know how many staff they were going to hire, what their capital requirements were, where the offices would be located. Until a program has been through the Treasury Board approval process, details like that are not finalized. Is that the case?
On May 3rd, 2018. See this statement in context.