It serves a couple of people very well. The current timeline for tabling the budget gives a lot of flexibility to the government and to the Minister of Finance to table a budget when they are ready and when it suits them, whereas a fixed tabling date for a budget or a shorter window, an earlier window, would force the government to table its budget at a time that may not be convenient or at a time when there are still lots of unknowns when it comes to the specific decisions that the government has not yet made.
