Thank you.
I'll turn to the budget currently under consideration. I've asked this question before, but I'll ask it again. Why wasn't this foreseeable? This is one of the things that I've written most often in the margin of the budget. For example, the Department of Public Works and Government Services is asking for $26,948,069 in funding for the federal sciences and technology infrastructure initiative. Why wasn't this funding included in the main estimates?
The same goes for capital investments. Why weren't they included? No capital assets are falling apart right now. About $175 million is included in the supplementary estimates instead of the main estimates.
To cover the operating costs of the electronic procurement solution, $17 million has been requested. For the electronic procurement solution, $11 million has been requested. To provide supplies for the health system, $7,300,000 has been requested. In the case of all these amounts, I can't figure out why they weren't included in the main estimates.
I can understand this in the case of employees when it comes to pension funds and negotiated agreements. However, why wasn't this funding included? It just magically appeared in the supplementary estimates (B). I'm trying to understand why these amounts weren't included in the main estimates.