Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the things, having gone through the supp in some detail with the Minister previously -- and I had mentioned this before and I'll mention it again -- it's kind of misleading when you see a supp come before you midway through the year, like this one is, and you state numbers here. For instance, $38,000 for the Commissioner's office, when the reality of the matter is, that expenditure is going to turn, next year, into $117,000 per year; and the same holds true for other positions that are being added in the supp. I don't really think it's a fair way to let us know what's really happening, because you have to go in and see that it's only until March 31st, and then after March 31st, you're hit with the big numbers, and these numbers are just partial numbers only until March 31st. So it doesn't paint the full picture for Members, and I think when the government does go out and develop a supp, they should also have an accompanying document with it that will tell us what the real costs are going to be going forward because, right now, it's just guesswork, and you have to put your math skills to use to try to figure out what it's going to cost. I think that's a shortcoming of the supp process. I'd like to ask the Minister if, in the future, he might be able to do that for us.
David Ramsay on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 26th, 2005
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