Madam Speaker, I too was quite struck by the budget when the documents were tabled.
The information was not forthcoming, literally. We actually cannot find the information in terms of what the budgetary items are, in terms of the actual spending in comparison to previous years.
On top of that, I was quite struck by the process, the budget being debated in committee, and in most instances, the minister only being at committee for one hour. We are talking about billions of dollars of spending, and to scrutinize the budgets, MPs will only get one hour in committee to do this work.
I would certainly love to see change in that regard. I wonder if the member could comment on that and share her view around that as well.