I will be a lot happier now knowing ahead of time what I'm going to get, because I will be able to do, for instance, better planning, based on economies of scale. If I know at the beginning of the year exactly what my funding will be, the contracts will reflect the fact that this is the money I am going to spend at such and such a site. As it is now, the department has agreed to doing that, so it will be a lot better for us.
Evidence of meeting #6 for Public Accounts in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was military.
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