Mr. Chair, the estimates detail the amount of spending that the government is asking Parliament to approve. At the same time, the government is supposed to tell us what it intends to do with that money through the departmental plans that it usually tables at the same time. However, we still do not have the departmental plans.
The government is asking us for money but refuses to tell us how it plans to spend it.
Does the President of the Treasury Board think it is acceptable to ask for blank cheques?