I would say that is fair. If this were not related to the government's new fiscal anchor of balancing the operating budget, it would be interesting that the Government of Canada came up with and is now defining capital differently than the accounting board and Statistics Canada and the United Nations, but it's something that the government could do. They can come up with any language they want to and define things as they see fit. That's their discretion.
The moment it entered into the territory of “this is our new fiscal anchor and this is how Canadians can judge our performance and this is how we're going to be communicating with parliamentarians”, it turned it into something that certainly requires greater transparency and better controls so that parliamentarians can understand it, know what they're looking at and deliberate over it.
