Government Operations committee  We weren't actually proposing a target. It was as a response to a question that we were asked about whether it would be 40% or 50%. Again, going back to what I and others have said here before, just changing the date of the main estimates and putting them right after the budget

Government Operations committee  It will make it possible but not very likely. I don't want to repeat myself, but as long as the processes for approval have not been changed and improved, it's very unlikely that they can actually align by changing the date by six weeks.

Government Operations committee  It will give him an opportunity to change the internal processes, but as to whether or not they have a plan to do that, we don't know, because we haven't seen any plan.

Government Operations committee  Not to us, to you.

Government Operations committee  I think what you need to see as members of Parliament.... The objective is to improve the processes, but you haven't really seen any plan. If the government sets a goal of 50% or 60% or whatever that target is, if that goal comes with a plan that shows exactly the steps that the

Government Operations committee  The machinery issue is something that we haven't really looked at. It's not really part of our mandate to look at the machinery of government. But whether it is part of Finance or separate from Finance doesn't mean they cannot work together. I think the way we have seen it is tha

Government Operations committee  That's what we have been saying in our evaluation of this.

Government Operations committee  That's correct. If there is a detailed plan to—

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  Well, obviously it's your decision, Parliament's decision, on whether or not to vote for this. But as we said, in our evaluation of this, it is not going to change—

Government Operations committee  There is a possibility that you are actually moving backwards, because if you lose supplementary (A)s and the government does not have the capacity to include more budget measures in the main estimates—

Government Operations committee  —then you're actually losing that opportunity from supplementary (A)s. That means moving backwards.

Government Operations committee  Obviously, there's always room for improvement. If they can improve their—

Government Operations committee  There are certainly areas there that are positive in terms of the idea of starting the pilot project for approval by programs rather than by votes. If that is expanded to other departments and other programs, that would be a positive step in terms of the control that Parliament c

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure if you lose oversight, because you haven't approved anything yet. If the measures are not proposed in the supplementary estimates, you haven't authorized the spending, so the government cannot go ahead and spend on those programs. What it means is that it delays the