Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Fréchette, I want to begin by talking about your position, which was created by the Conservatives in 2006 to prevent non-transparent decisions of successive Liberal governments. Mr. Flaherty—and I was in full agreement with him at the time—said that governments cannot be accountable if Parliament and Canadians don't know what the real state of public finances is.
When it comes to the $7-billion difference in what was made public by the Department of Finance, can that be seen as a problem in terms of good governance or even, ultimately, as an ethical issue?