Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My thanks to all the witnesses for being here today.
I would first like to talk about the statutory items. We will not be asked to vote on them, but they are still included in the main estimates for information purposes.
In your introduction, you said that you were expecting a decrease of $734 million in interest on unmatured debt, due to a downward revision of interest rates. Thanks to the documents from the Library of Parliament—whose employees I thank—we see that the projected amount of interest on unmatured debt for 2017-18 is $14.924 billion. Could you elaborate on that for the benefit of Canadians? An amount of $15 billion will be spent over this fiscal year that just started. Who will receive those amounts? That's interest. So we are talking about institutions that lend the money to Canada. Interest is paid to them, but is there a way for Canadians to find out who actually gets that money, the $15 billion per year for the interest on the debt?