That's fair enough. I was expecting that answer because we asked last year and we have never gotten an answer.
That is why, Mr. Chair and Mr. Clerk, I have asked that Treasury Board officials be included as part of the pre-budget study. The Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Auditor General have raised concerns about people planning processes across government. Every year that a budget is tabled, it is asked what the impact is on people. We don't actually have an answer. We don't have anyone come to committee from the Treasury Board who's capable of answering that question. That's the reason I'm asking for those officials to appear.
Ms. Wong, thank you for your earlier discussions with my colleagues.
I understand the accounting, but what I'm actually interested in is a very simple issue of cash.
Where does the Bank of Canada get the money to satisfy the losses it's incurred? Does it just create additional settlement balances and put those in the accounts of the banks to whom they owe the funds?