One example that springs to mind is the case of the audit we conducted of the Canadian firearms program. Consistently there were large amounts of money that went through the supplementary estimates. I think it was 30% that was spent on the program through supplementary estimates. We were saying that a lot of these things should have been known and included in the main estimates. There might have been a question of timing, as we have indicated here, but we were of the impression, certainly at least on that program, that there should have been much more put into the main estimates so Parliament would have had a better idea of the total spending at that particular time.
On February 26th, 2007. See this statement in context.