I must say I'm feeling a little bit frustrated, because some of our witnesses have said that Canada is a bit of an outlier. Most OECD countries have managed to align their budgets with their estimates in a way that isn't super-complicated and doesn't take years and years to bring about.
I accept your point about accrual versus cash accounting, but when you say that sometimes it would take several years to go through Treasury Board, meaning that even if the budget were well in advance of the estimates....
If you had, say, two or three months, to what degree would you be able to align the estimates with the budget?