Francis Drouin at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On April 19th, 2016. See this statement in context.

April 19th, 2016 / 12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

I want to talk to the Minister. Thank you, as well as your department, for being here.

I want to talk to you about something you touched on, and that's the main estimates and the alignment with the budget. I know that the budget in Australia will be coming in 13 days, 16 hours, 42 minutes, 46 seconds and counting, on Tuesday, May 3. They have this nice countdown here. It's great.

You talked a lot about the Australia model. Are there other jurisdictions that the committee should be looking at, other than Australia, that have this similar type of main estimates and budget alignment?

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