I'd like to comment on that very briefly.
If you were to ask the parliamentary budget officer to table a statement for you on the state of the economy--the GDP--and where it's going, you would add one more set of numbers to the sets of numbers you get from the Department of Finance, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, and from all the other independent forecasters. It's just one more voice.
What we're trying to conceive in interpreting the mandate of this officer is to provide you with underlying explanations of the factors that are influencing the variations, so that you can form your own conclusions about how valid the forecast is.