Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm just going to register my concern with the process today. My comments were actually going to be solely on the report, but the moment we start arbitrating and not giving the same level of deference to members' questions as we do to a motion or a bill in the House of Commons, and where you have proactively, without another member of Parliament's raising a point of order about relevance.... To me, we're masters of our own proceedings in this place.
If someone is going a little too far or is being aggressive with a witness, I would expect you, Mr. Chair, or perhaps other members of the committee to call that person out through a point of order. But to dismiss the attempt or desire of another member of Parliament to be able to ask questions on a wide range of issues when we have experts such as these, I think is not a process that is positive for our Parliament. I would just hope that my comments would be taken with some weight simply because they are done with respect.
To the parliamentary budget office, thank you for being here today. I would first like to follow up some of the points I asked in October last year. You may remember that I was asking about the ability of your office to give regional breakdowns by demographics. Obviously one of the concerns we have in this country is our aging demographics and its pull on economic growth, just due to our labour issues and our ability to fund important government programs. Has there been any update? If I am correct, there was a lack of information that would allow that kind of analysis.
Could someone comment, please?