Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to you, Mr. Brison, for being here with us, and to all the members of the panel. I will not make any reference to my age or anybody else's age, thank you very much. As I am also a member of the public accounts committee, let me just say I commend you on this initiative. We're already seeing in public accounts how important it is to have the program base control structure in place so that we can make good assessments on the performance of departments, agencies, and crown corporations. That's definitely going to help us in our work in the future, but here of course it all starts when we are actually doling out the money, and we need to know why we're doling it out. I'm interested in exploring further this incremental approach you've taken to aligning the estimates in the budget cycle.
Maybe some of the members of the panel can talk a little bit about what's involved, why you have chosen this approach, and what challenges you face. The last thing we want is for this to not be done properly.