Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So we're coming full circle to where I started, Mr. Speaker. So each department, again, has a set budget that allows them to perform the basic functions, programs, and services that they have to undertake. When there's an ask made and for example, Mr. Speaker, I undertake budget dialogue. It's something I've done for two years in a row now, and that's done in the summer to give time for the departments to react to what we might hear in that process. Community governments attend, individual NGOs, nonprofit sector attend, business chambers attend, and individual members of the public also attend, Mr. Speaker. And every single one of them is bringing forward a different ask, a different need, identifying a different area where there's pressure points. And when they've done that, Mr. Speaker, and again as I've said, each department that delivers those programs and services can go back and say, have we met those needs; are there new needs that we didn't know about or that we weren't focusing on? And we can do that to bring through the business planning cycle in the summer which builds upon and gets us to where we are now, which is the main estimates. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Caroline Wawzonek on Question 1012-19(2): Allocation of Budgets
In the Legislative Assembly on March 9th, 2022. See this statement in context.
Question 1012-19(2): Allocation of Budgets
Oral Questions
March 9th, 2022
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