Health committee  Markups.

Health committee  It shouldn't really have any impact on the costs from the model, because we are assuming that those drugs will be replaced and will be paid for by public insurance. There isn't really any additional cost.

Health committee  I think the point is that on the private expenditures, they cover some of the drugs that are not in the Quebec formulary, so it's hard to know exactly how you can divide those. There will certainly be savings on the part of the private sector, but we haven't really figured out ex

Health committee  I don't think we can say that, really.

Government Operations committee  Again, I think the integration of the processes that we mentioned earlier requires Finance's collaboration in terms of being open with the Treasury Board in regard to what budget measures are being considered, how they are developing those, and where they are going with that. At

Government Operations committee  I can't really say it's consistent unless we see the results at the end of the day—

Government Operations committee  —to see whether they are actually able to achieve that.

Government Operations committee  I think it's not only the issue of appropriations by project. What was mentioned here is the way that different measures are explained in the main estimates and the budget. Sometimes they're completely different—different titles, different explanations—so it's very hard to line t

Government Operations committee  You would have about eight weeks, I believe, to review and approve, if that was the case. I think that's just slightly more than what you have right now.... No, it's not. I'm sorry; I was wrong there. The problem is that right now you have more time, but the main estimates don'

Government Operations committee  Exactly.

Government Operations committee  One of the issues that I think was raised in 2012 was the idea that fixing the budget date before the main estimates and at the end of February would give parliamentarians more time to evaluate the different estimates and different measures. That is obviously not part of the plan

Government Operations committee  That would be ideal if that happens, obviously, but as I said, the four pillars and the proposal on the table right now is not for that; we're changing the main estimates date and not fixing the budget date. My comment wasn't based on that—

Government Operations committee  The four pillars don't actually deal with the internal processes at all. Those are completely different. Certainly that's not part of that plan. There may be another plan somewhere else.

Government Operations committee  As I think I mentioned earlier, and as others have said, there has to be better integration of the two processes at Finance and Treasury Board to align budget items with the main estimates. That's really the bottom line. How they achieve that is something that's internal. They h

Government Operations committee  As I said, you lose the possibility of authorizing spending that is required for the budget measures, because they won't come; if they can't include those in the main estimates, you won't see them until November. That's about seven, eight, or nine months after the budget.