I do have an idea. Under the current system, if you thought there would be a new program that was going to be in the budget and you wanted that department working on the program design at the same time that the budget is being formulated, absolutely, you would be expanding that loop. I'll let my colleague maybe comment on that aspect. That would allow departments to start preparing new program design at the same time that the budget is being contemplated.
The downside to that, of course, is that sometimes there are ideas that don't actually make it all the way to the end. You might have people designing programs that don't actually make it into the budget.
What you will see in some of our provinces—I cannot speak to Alberta's situation with certainty—is that the folks who do the main estimates are in the same department as the folks who do the budget.