I don't think it's just Treasury Board. It's probably an issue for all departments. Have they lost control of spending? We've certainly lost accountability for real-time spending. We can't get a clear picture of how much has been spent to date on a given program, such as CERB. We only have an idea of how much will be spent up to the end of the fiscal year. CERB has ended, I know, but there are still applications in process, late applications. It's the same for the programs that succeeded it. The disclosures give us an idea, but we have no idea of the total expenditures to date for COVID-19. The government used to provide this information to the Standing Committee on Finance every two weeks. We have lost this source of information.
The Treasury Board Secretariat has developed a website, the GoC InfoBase, which displays the maximum amount voted by Parliament for each of these programs, but it does not provide the current amount of spending.