Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning, Mr. Giroux and Ms. Yan. Thank you for joining us. Thank you also for the important work you are doing. You must have some impossible weeks, with all the work you have to accomplish and all the analyses you have to do. You are doing particularly essential work during this pandemic, when it is difficult to obtain reliable data and to track the historic expenditures that are being made. My hat is off to you; on behalf of all my colleagues, you have my thanks.
I would like to begin by asking you once again about the topic that two of my colleagues have addressed, the spectacular increase in the debt ceiling. I'd like to make a clear distinction between borrowing authority and spending authority.
You told Mr. Fraser about it, but I would like to be assured that this borrowing authority is not automatically the approval for the government to spend that money as it wishes.
More specifically, I would like the assurance that each of the government's additional expenditures will have to be voted on by parliamentarians. Is that in fact the case?