Will you let me continue? On April 15, the Parliamentary Budget Officer produced Table 2 on page 4. In it, he entered $241 million in interest in 2010, $447 million in 2011, $526 million in 2012, $539 million in 2013 and $372 million in 2014, which had to be paid by the fund.
Is this interest to which the Parliamentary Budget Officer refers real or not?
Furthermore, if we had kept this notional value of the $57 billion accumulated in the account, rather than having interest charges, we would have continued receiving interest income, wouldn't we?