Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Page, everyone has in a way agreed to congratulate you on your excellent work, and even the government party is taking credit for creating this position, on the ground that it proposed it. Since you are doing such a good job, I would like you to answer the following question.
If the parliamentary budget officer, your office, did not receive the $1.8 to $2.7 million increase originally budgeted, would you be able to provide us with as much documentation, as much analysis, and would it be of equal quality? Is it possible to improve the quality further because we can also expect that additional items could have been delivered to us but were not because you didn't have the necessary staff to do so?
We may also consider it highly likely, since we are in a recession, that the everyday question is the financial question. We can expect that there will be increasing numbers of very legitimate requests forwarded to your office. If you did not have that documentation, would you be able to respond to us as well as you have from the start?