Well, Mr. Menzies, I'll start with the economic question first, and then we'll go to the data issue. I'll be brief.
It may be that we could provide.... Maybe it would be helpful for you if we unpacked this a little bit for the committee members, to do a more substantive Canada-U.S. comparison of fundamentals. We'd be happy to do that, and we would look at some of the imbalances that exist in the United States, what has happened to those imbalances recently, and what imbalances we may have had in the Canadian economy. By that, I mean consumer balance sheets, corporate balance sheets, external balances, trade balances, fiscal balances, and we could show basically the nature of some of those fundamentals, look at savings rates. We'd be happy to do that if you'd like to do that. It would be complementary to the report we released earlier that you referred to that looked at the GDP numbers.
But I could say, sir, that even if you look backwards and you look at slide five as an example and you look at Canada-U.S. monthly real GDP and you look at the performances in 2008, you can get a sense, looking at that very high-level headline number, that there are not substantial differences in terms of real gross domestic product when you look backwards.
When you look forward, I think there are some differences in the forecasts, but if you want us to undertake that kind of work in our study, we'd be happy to do that. And Mr. Wallace is nodding as well.