Thank you, Minister. Thank you for the question, Mr. Whalen.
As the minister has made clear, we've made very good progress in better aligning or integrating, as our Australian friends mentioned, the budget and the estimates process. We believe that by properly sequencing the tabling of the documents so that the estimates come at the same time or slightly after the budget, we can make additional progress.
Using last year, 2015-16, as an example, if we were to have a more integrated process, it's quite conceivable that a fixed election would have no impact on supply in the sense that it is the intention to table budgets, present budgets, in the February-March timeline and our estimates in the April-May timeline. That's what happened, in fact, last year, and we were able to get through the election process with full supply for departments. They had all the authorities they needed to implement programs and services, and we were able to deliver those programs and services without resorting to extraordinary measures such as Governor General warrants.