Maybe, Mr. Nevison, you could expand on it from a finance point of view. Is there something special about March? We talked about how February 1 would cause problems, because you wouldn't have the latest information in terms of the economy, but economies are constantly changing anyway.
Even though we don't have a fixed budget date today, by tradition we've almost always done a budget in the spring, in February or March, every year. If finance has to go to a certain calendar because spring is the most sensible time to introduce a budget, why not change Treasury Board's operations in terms of that fiscal year? What happens with finance, and why March?
I understand also that in a minority Parliament situation there might not be a budget because it doesn't get passed. If you have a law that says a budget must be in place by a certain date and the budget doesn't get passed, then you're basically operating the government without a budget. We've done that in the past.