Thank you, Mr. Chair, and welcome, Minister. It's great to have you back before us.
You will know from my approach in the House that I often talk about my constituents, and my constituents and the media and some others have raised some grave concerns regarding the transparency of this government and what people in my riding have called the abuse of the parliamentary procedure.
Minister, today you say that because of changes that won't come into force until 2023—and obviously my interest is still the OAS because I had the pension file for a number of years—it is hard to predict the savings that you'll actually achieve. Now how could the government predict that the savings were in fact necessary, if those predictions were not made previously using a macroeconomic model?
Sir, you must surely have made projections. Your department would have made these projections. Minister, can you tell us or will you share with us at least the projections so that we can fundamentally understand the “why” behind your move?