But that is exactly the point. The Department of Finance gives fiscal forecasts. They are beholden to the Minister of Finance. The Bank of Canada gives monetary forecasts. It uses the same numbers, but it's for monetary purposes.
Parliamentarians were frustrated, both in the last parliament and in this parliament, that there was no independent entity that spoke, if you will, for parliamentarians. And now what we find out is that we're not going to get an alternative voice; we're simply going to get a rehash of the numbers that are already in the public domain--either from independent forecasters, from the Bank of Canada, or from the Department of Finance.