Mr. Chair, I find it hard to understand Mr. Wallace's objection. We are asking the Parliamentary Budget Officer or the government to talk about economic growth in the same way that Mr. McCallum means.
The unemployment rate is telling and will strictly indicate the limitations of the economic projections. We anticipate that the economy will move forward at a certain pace, but the unemployment rate is a key factor that can tell us we are not quite there. By leaving out the unemployment rate, we deny ourselves a process that can be used to confirm the economic projections. Adding the unemployment rate does not counteract this procedure, but complements it.