Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Giroux, you've recommended in your report that a fixed date, as I understand it, be adopted for tabling the budget so that it can be reflected in the main estimates to, as you said, avoid confusion.
This year, Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Obviously things happened around the world and domestically that require significant expenditure and attention. If this rule were in place, I would argue that there wouldn't have been time for the budget to respond to that major development.
I want to ask whether your recommendation to have a fixed date for the budget is not too rigid.