So in order to have the estimates reflect what's in the budget, I think Mr. Matthews said on a couple of different occasions, the more time you have between the two, the more reflective it's going to be. But the problem is that if you push it back farther, the actual information that's in the budget doesn't do what we really need the budget to do. There's a balance we have to find there. So the timing issue is something that this committee, when we're making our recommendations, is going to have to really spend some time on. We're going to have to really consider what we suggest on that, because it could have a huge impact both on your departments and on the Canadian economy.
I'm going to move on to the issue of statutory and discretionary spending. One of the problems we have is that when we do receive information, it's kind of all rolled into one, and we get these huge, thick documents. Do you think it would be at all possible to eliminate statutory spending, unless there were changes in the statutory spending because of the budget, and to produce documents in which we could actually see more of the discretionary spending, and focus on that? Would that be something we could do, as parliamentarians, to be more effective?