Finance committee  No, no, just the collation.

Finance committee  Given the timing of when he did the report, if my memory serves, I don't believe he would have had access.

Finance committee  If memory serves, I don't think he would have had access to that prior to the budget season.

Finance committee  If the three-year moving average of GDP fails to attain the 3% floor, it will be 3%, yes.

Finance committee  It depends on your three-year moving average, but it would be more than 3%.

Finance committee  Given that this is dependent on what future GDP growth would be, I don't have figures of that nature.

Finance committee  I had not heard of that program, no.

Finance committee  I don't think I have any comment on that.

Finance committee  First of all, with respect to savings over a period, I repeat that the legislation expired at the end of 2013-14, so what the measure has done is define what the growth of the transfer following 2013-14 will be. So the figures that have been set out are the total spending that will be put to the Canada health transfer.

Finance committee  I would simply say that I wouldn't know which data you're referring to that in the next three to six years would indicate a particular profile of future provincial and territorial health expenditures. We are aware of what provincial actions are from their budgets.

Finance committee  I think the Parliamentary Budget Officer, for the purpose of the long-term projection and for the purpose of presenting a scenario that was taken out over a very long period of time, took an average of expenditures and I think indicated that that's what he was doing and it was getting paired against a particular assumption for GDP.

Finance committee  That is correct. That's the average we've taken from the budgets that are in so far.

Finance committee  Do you mean in terms of what the three-year moving average is?

Finance committee  The three-year moving average that's going to be taken will be for the year for which you are estimating a payment and the two prior years. Of course, you're not going to have actual data for all of that.

Finance committee  That's right.