Thank you. I appreciate that.
I want to come back to the question that was raised earlier on vote 40 and the Parliamentary Budget Officer's estimation of the impact, or lack thereof, that's had on getting new budget initiatives out the door, so to speak, funded and operational. You said in your earlier testimony that if you look at the last two years, largely the results have been more or less the same in terms of how quickly programs get out the door under the budget implementation vote system and the preceding system. There are still two things you need in order to get that money out the door, right? You need parliamentary approval of the funds and then you need Treasury Board approval of the funds. In the past, usually departments would wait to go to Parliament until they had received Treasury Board approval, and then they would submit their funding request to Parliament through the estimates process. Now they're getting that funding pre-approved, and then they still have to go to Treasury Board. Going through Treasury Board, they still....
Is it fair to say that departments are largely finding out their new budget initiatives when the budget is announced and not much in advance in terms of what's actually approved by cabinet and Treasury Board, so that it still takes them roughly the same amount of time to then prepare a Treasury Board submission and go to Treasury Board to get those funds approved? Is that a fair assessment?