Thank you, Minister.
As the minister said, we absolutely are working very closely with Finance to lessen the time or shorten the gap between the tabling of the budget and presentation of the main estimates. The fact remains, however, that there are instances when the Department of Finance needs some flexibility in terms of the timing of the budget. In the fall of 2008, there was a global economic recession, so the government of the day worked very hard to bring forward a budget quite quickly in the cycle to provide assurances to markets and to Canadians to take advantage of that.