This expenditure budget determines the amount of financial resources the government plans to allocate to the production of public goods and services. It displays the estimates requested by the government for the fiscal year. This document provides additional information on those estimates and on the budgetary expenditure. It contains a presentation of the government's spending policy with complementary notes which provide an explanation of the budgetary transactions, information on the evolution of total expenditure and estimates, their distribution by broad government mission and by domain of activity, and their distribution by expenditure category, and highlights of the estimates by department and by program.