There are two main benefits to tabling in the fall. As just mentioned, one is around giving provinces and territories more clarity about the federal government's plans while they develop their own budgets. I've already spoken to a few provincial colleagues who are quite pleased with that.
The second one is that parliamentarians have often expressed frustration about the lack of alignment between the budget when it's in the spring and the main estimates typically tabled around the same time that reflect nothing of the budget. Tabling the budget in the fall, as has been done this year and will happen going forward, gives departments a chance to get budget measures into their main estimates, which Parliament will see in 2026 before April 1, and allow better alignment there. Departments are going to have to work very hard to get their submissions for new funding into the main estimates. That will be our job over the next few months with departments.
The other piece will be investments but also reductions. There has been some dialogue this afternoon around the CER and when the details will show up. The full details will be in the main estimates and the departmental plans that go with it when they are tabled in 2026. The reductions we've been talking about don't actually take effect until April 1. That's where you will see the traditional parliamentary reporting with those details, outside of PBO requests, etc., which has already been discussed.