Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being with us here today. I was looking forward to having you here and being able to ask some questions about the supplementary estimates (B) and the report you put forward.
First I want to go to something you mentioned in your opening statement. You said: “The balance pertains to other new policy measures that the government identified outside its standard financial cycle.” You identified the fall economic statement as being outside the standard financial cycle.
What is the impact of introducing something new into the standard financial cycle on the information that we receive and all of the processes within our budgetary cycle?