My main concerns relate to the fact that, for parliamentarians and Canadians who have an interest in budget making, the main estimates are tabled before the budget, so the mains do not include any budgetary initiatives. You're asked as parliamentarians to review the main estimates and approve them. Then the budget comes along with new initiatives in the budget that are not in the mains, so it's a bit confusing.
Here we are on May 8. The budget was tabled at the end of March, but nowhere in the main estimates are budget items, so these will find their way into supplementary estimates (A), (B) or maybe even (C). It makes it very difficult for parliamentarians to figure out where the budget initiatives are in these appropriation bills that you are asked to approve. That is my main concern.
Similarly, departmental plans do not include any of the budget initiatives. You have these instruments, these pieces of information, that don't include budget initiatives, so it's a bit confusing, to say the least, for anybody—even people who are very studious and try to make sense of all these documents—to follow the money and follow it appropriately.