Thank you, Minister, and thank you for being here.
Thank you as well for the clarification around how you're increasing the accountability and transparency in the process by aligning the estimates and the budget and by bringing in the budget implementation vote, which, you say, binds the amounts listed in the table that shows the allocation for each budget initiative. But there is still some consideration around whether this is certain or not, and whether there's a slush fund that's available to you to use. I know that in the previous government there was an accountability act and that there is this confusion, because the accountability act did not function properly. I used to be the chair of the government operations committee, and I know some of the things we had to discuss.
One, could you tell us how your process will give certainty to parliamentarians that they can look at additional spending and be guaranteed that you will give them that opportunity? And two, how is this process different? What has the government done to give parliamentarians access to better and more timely information?
Thank you.