Mr. Giroux, through these supplementary estimates, the government is requesting more than $20 billion in new voted budgetary appropriations. Your report highlights the following:
Including these Supplementary Estimates, the total proposed year-to-date budgetary authorities are $487.4 billion, which represents a $5.2 billion (or 1.0 per cent) decrease compared with the Estimates to date for the preceding year.
How does the value of requested amounts this year compare with the supplementary estimates (B) request, especially those of maybe prepandemic years?