One question I'd lined up was asked previously, about paying down debt and surpluses. In my previous job the issue we had on a surplus—basically we treated it as one-time money that wasn't to go back into programming for government services. I worked at a different level of government.
Does the Bank of Canada have a position on the role of the surplus? Is there a prudent level, as the previous speaker mentioned, or is this something you keep to yourselves and discuss privately?