Thank you.
Your mandate letter instructs you to support the Minister of Finance in reviews of government spending and tax expenditure, and to transparently report the results to the public. The finance minister is no stranger to this committee. He has appeared here many times and has refused and failed to answer very basic questions about the finances of the Government of Canada.
Being instructed in your mandate letter to transparently report results to the public, are you the minister who can tell this committee in what year the budget will be balanced?