In the Q and A for Treasury Board, on the estimates, question 7 says:
Most of my organization's Budget measures have not yet been approved by Treasury Board. What can I say about those measures at a committee appearance?
The answer is:
Give brief, high-level responses that stay as close as possible to the Budget narrative.
I don't think you wrote that, but when you look at the government's own website, the definition of the budget is “a financial expression of...government...policies”, with the estimates providing “a breakdown...of how government plans to spend public funds”. We're advising public servants, when they're asked questions about the estimates that they don't have answers for, to stay as close as possible to the political narrative. Do you not see any issue?