Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is a real pleasure to be here.
I wanted to start, Mr. Kennedy, with you. The minister invited some of the members opposite to go through the process with you on the technical aspects of how the estimate process works. I've sat through many of these meetings on the estimates, and every time I walk away just kind of floored and flabbergasted by the simplistic approach that is quite often taken in trying to compare a main estimate to a main estimate and not understanding the whole supplemental process and how it all works.
Maybe you could give us some edification on that. We know we can't allocate funds to a program that has not been designated, so that's where the supplementaries come in. Maybe you could give us some focus on that and make sure we have a clear understanding of how this process actually works.