Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy the hon. member's financial interventions. I like finance. I come from a business background.
One thing I noticed when I became a member of Parliament was that budgets and estimates did not align with each other. They were in different periods. They were in different years. It was confusing to see what we were budgeting and what we were actually spending and how we compared the two. Now when we go on Canada.ca, it is all in the same period. We can see last year's expenditures, this year's estimates voted on, next year's estimates, and estimates to date. Therefore, we now have full transparency between budgets and estimates, bringing them into the same period.
The $7 billion that was on the floor has to do with coming into the same period. Would the hon. member comment on how helpful or hurtful it has been for us to now have budgets and estimates in the same period?