Thank you, Mr. Grewal. You're absolutely right that the current process does not make much sense. It's very difficult to explain in its present sense. It's easier to describe what we want to do than how we're currently doing business.
That's very much the reason we propose a four-pillar approach: get the timing right, and in getting the timing right, bring greater clarity on some of the other interests and needs of committees, including accounting and universe and the control structure through the vote framework.
If we can proceed in an orderly fashion in that way, then yes, I do believe we are lined up to succeed. The change of Standing Orders is the prerogative of the House, but we understand it to be a fairly simple and straightforward question of simply changing on or before “March 1” to on or before “May 1”.
We are working very closely with the Department of Finance to deepen the coordination of the budget and TB approvals. Last year's success in bringing forward almost 70% of the budget in our supplementary estimates (A), tabled on May 10, suggests that we can succeed here in bringing forward budget items into the main estimates tabled on or before May 1.