Thank you.
This is for Mr. Leswick and Madam Boudreau.
In August 2023, then Treasury Board president Anita Anand announced that the government would be directing departments to find more than $15 billion in savings across departments. Looking through the public accounts, I was very eager to see these savings in action and looking forward to expenditures in departments going down. However, note 6 in section 2 of the 2024-25 public accounts indicates that expenditures are up for every ministry except four. It's similar under the same category in the 2023-24 public accounts.
This leads me today to the government's newly announced comprehensive expenditure review. You're pledging to save billions of dollars, but Canadians haven't even seen results from the last ill-hearted attempt at saving. What measures are currently being taken to ensure department spending is reduced across the board?