Thank you.
Governor, I wanted to circle back to what we were talking about earlier. I had a chance to look up what the mandate of the Bank of Canada is. It says that your mandate is “to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada”, which begs the question.... When you come to the finance committee and members of Parliament ask you questions related to the economic and financial welfare of Canada, you should answer them.
What I'm also surprised about is that, when I had my first round, you said that you would not answer questions with respect to fiscal policy and that you were here to talk about monetary policy. However, when a Liberal MP asked you a question about fiscal policy, specifically about what would happen if the carbon tax was eliminated and what its effect on prices would be, you answered that question.
I'm starting to feel that if a Liberal asks you a question about fiscal policy, then you're willing to answer it, but if a Conservative asks you, then you're not willing to answer it, so I'm going to try again.