The point I made earlier was that the federal government is a more complex organization in many ways, but it also has greater resources, so I'm not clear why the federal government could not produce some of its documents faster.
On the link with provincial finances, I have two related points. One is that we want the federal government to present its budget in a timely way because the transfer payments it makes to other levels of government are very important in their budgeting processes. In a situation such as happened repeatedly over the past decade, where a province would produce its budget ahead of its fiscal year, ahead of April 1, but the federal government would produce its budget after April 1, you had situations where the province might find it was counting on revenues that were going to be different from what the federal government reveals it would have.
The other point is something we touched on, that faster production of the numbers means faster gathering of the data. The federal government's estimates, for example, of tax revenue that it shares with the provinces that it has tax-sharing agreements with, are other important things where the faster gathering of information could assist other levels of government.