You have said, and others have said to us, that having the budget in the fall would be an improvement. It wouldn't solve everything, but it would be an improvement. I have a specific question and a general question.
If it's an improvement, if there are no down sides to it, why didn't it happened decades ago?
More generally, you have this chart showing a rise in the number of studies on the estimates and a reduction in the time spent on them. What's the main impediment to change? There's a strong case for major change to the system, more like Australia, more like New Zealand, or whatever. Why has that not happened? Is it a political problem? I don't think it's particularly partisan, because it didn't change when Liberals were government and it hasn't changed under the Conservatives.
Is it entrenched interest of Treasury Board or the bureaucracy that just likes everything to be the way it has always been? Are we just wasting our time on this study? What's the main source of lack of change or reform?