Thank you very much, Chair, and through you to the witnesses.
This may sound like a bizarre question, but it's something that I'm actually quite interested in. It's with regard to the expenditure cycle for the Government of Canada. What is the impact on it with respect to the change in when we table our budget? We made the decision to do a fall budget now so that it would allow provinces, territories, municipalities and so on to be able to do their planning. They often do their budgets in the spring, but they need to know what's coming down the pipe, really.
Would it be possible to elaborate a little bit on what that impact is in terms of the expenditure cycle for the Treasury Board Secretariat? As well, what does that mean in terms of any additional changes that need to happen?