Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to make a couple of general comments on the Minister’s opening remarks.
Since I’ve been here I’ve seen a few of these sups come forward. I’m just a little concerned that when they do their actual budgeting exercise, it seems that they come back for some extra funding that wasn’t asked for before. I’m just hoping that this is not an indication of not budgeting properly or waiting for a lot of the actual costs to come in before they realize they’ve budgeted wrong. I’ve seen it happen in a few other cases, where numbers are being budgeted, and when it comes down to the actual, we seem to be…. The estimates seem to come in a lot less than what it’s actually costing us. I just hope this is not a trend.
I understand there’s some stuff that we just can’t get away from. There are emergencies and a few other things that weren’t foreseen when they were doing the actual budgeting exercise. I just wanted to make a few comments to that effect, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.