In my 25 years or so in the public service, including many years at Finance, the Privy Council, and Treasury Board, this type of information was regularly exchanged among officials, and exchanged with private sector forecasts. In fact, our projections, our assumptions in the back of our table and chart package, do include information on wages and salaries, corporate profits, and other income components of the national income.
On February 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.