Mr. Drouin, thank you for these relevant and well-informed questions.
As everyone knows, in the first year of the pilot project, vote 40 was used to enable committee members and parliamentarians to find out the results of the reconciliation between the budget process and the estimates more quickly.
Parallel to that, there is now a reconciliation table every time a budget is tabled, which increases parliamentarians' ability to obtain transparent information.
In the second year, following recommendations from parliamentarians, vote 40 disappeared. That was an excellent development that led to a subdivision of much more useful data in the reconciliation table between the Finance Minister's budget and the estimates.
Now, parliamentarians have the responsibility to guide us through the next steps. A number of projects have been implemented over the past few years, and we are very proud of that, especially GC InfoBase and the reconciliation table. An increasing amount of information is available in an accessible format to all Canadians.
We want to and have to do more, and we are counting on you to help us.