Thank you for the clarification. I think I understand better.
Instead of moving the fiscal year-end, the same thing could be accomplished by saying that the budget needs to come out in December or in January or whenever, right?
As I said, the capital budget in New Brunswick was always done in December. The operating account budget we did at least once in December. It had some good points and some bad points.
The other thing that would happen in New Brunswick.... They brought down their budget, for example, yesterday, and they would now be going through the committee of supply process to approve it. What they would do is set aside a number of hours--and I don't remember exactly how many hours--for the committee of supply to consider the main estimates. It was a significant number of hours, though.
The committee would call in the ministers for the departments they wanted to review, and it would be up to the committee to decide which departments they wanted to review. They would call them in, and they would go through asking the minister many questions about that. By the time the final vote was taken on the main estimates, it was probably into early June before the final vote was taken. So again, that's just what happened in New Brunswick.