Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, I am sorry. I was getting the dates wrong in my head initially. I appreciate that the Member had me clarify that. I am sympathetic to the challenges in terms of the length that it takes to prepare the full year's estimates. It is a full-year process, and I certainly have been making an effort in just the last couple of months to explain that full-year process as much as possible to the House and in the public. I'll continue to make that effort because, to a certain degree, in order to go through a business planning process, it is going to be starting this spring for the 2021-2022 year. It does happen several months in advance, six or more months in advance. It doesn't make it necessarily very responsive, but there are ways throughout that process, before they're finalized, to impact on what is actually in the business plans and impact what is ultimately in the main estimates, certainly, at least until the end of the calendar year. A better understanding of that by the public, and better understanding of it by all of the Members, will hopefully be helpful, and as far as making it more expensive more generally, the ability to see the business planning over four years should also, hopefully, make it more responsive to things that are on the horizon in the near future, even if not necessarily in the few months. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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