I have two answers. First of all, as Mr. Waters said, many programs get supplementary estimates simply because of a matter of the date of the budget, and so on. If the government wants to announce new programs, that will probably and inevitably be part of supplementary estimates.
It must also be acknowledged that a government has to have supplementary estimates. They will always exist because unforeseen situations arise, whether it be, as in recent years, SARS or mad cow disease. A number of unforeseen events occur, and we need amounts of money. I think instead we should put the emphasis on the clarity of the explanations when requests are made for supplementary estimates so that parliamentarians can clearly see the nature of the expenditures and their justification, whether they be carry-overs from previous years or collective agreements that have been resolved.