Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My question is perhaps a short one.
In March of 2020, this government tried to pass legislation that would have given it the authority to spend money for almost two years with no scrutiny and no ability to hold it to account. As we talk about the situation we're in right now, without a hard deadline for the release of departmental results reports but yet a very tight timeline for parliamentarians to approve additional spending, the government may in part be accomplishing that goal of spending money with very little scrutiny and an inability to hold them to account.
We've talked about the fact that there is no hard deadline for the release of these reports. As parliamentarians, what could we or should we be doing to rectify this situation and to change the current circumstances that we find ourselves in? How do we get a hard deadline put into our budgeting process?