No, I don't think that's it. A number of steps go into coming up with an estimate. I can give you an example that relates to our department. It relates to what you see in one of the votes. When we include an initiative in the estimates, we provide the best possible estimate we are capable of at the time. As you know, once the initiative is approved, the request goes to cabinet, to the Treasury Board. That is the time to spell out the costs and the number of people. The details of the program or initiative are then fleshed out.
The funding requests are submitted to the Treasury Board, and, in many cases, you also see them because the spending authorities are approved at the parliamentary level. We are then able to provide more accurate estimates. To begin with, only the broad strokes of the initiative are laid out, but as it is developed, the associated costs become clearer. That is altogether different from the issue related to vote 10.
As I told Ms. Ratansi, the challenge of costing falls to us, and the people responsible are highly competent. Nevertheless, when an initiative is still in its infancy, the costs are often less detailed. We provide more detailed costing as the initiative is developed, and that is prior to the submission to the Treasury Board.