The government did make some choices. It decided to spend on certain programs, just as, for instance, it decided to amend the Criminal Code. Program expenditures are affected by government decisions. These are not decisions, in my opinion, that the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer can really examine.
It is important for our office to examine expenditure levels and to see whether they are reasonable, and if there is a risk—the government in fact referred to this—that operational expenditures may be frozen in order to achieve savings. That is not really a matter of choice, to our mind. On the basis of the government's choices, we analyze the figures and the rest is not really our affair.