John McCallum at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 14th, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 14th, 2012 / 4:45 p.m.

Liberal

John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON

Thank you.

Let's choose an arbitrary date and suppose the budget was in early November and the estimates process was the same timing. In terms of our desire to align, how much would we achieve by doing so—other than the cash accrual issue—50%, 80%, 40%?

Because I understand there is a cost. If you do it in early November you may be less accurate in predicting the upcoming fiscal year, so what's the cost-benefit ratio there?

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