Thank you.
Some of the comments were eloquently discussed by my colleagues. I'll shorten mine accordingly.
The challenge I have—and I mean this sincerely—is that it's a bit troubling to me that a government, instead of producing their own documents or their own disclosure, is saying, “You can just go to the PBO.” The PBO is there to review the government's numbers and then assess them independently, but the government has to give you those numbers first. The PBO should never be a substitute for a government being transparent. That's just a fallacy of logic and is, on its face, incorrect.
My colleague is exactly right as well. There is a big difference between a projection and what has actually happened. As my colleague said, there can be reasonable explanations for why a projection would be different from an estimation. If you made a projection in 2019 and then COVID happened, your projection would be way off. That's not because the government has done anything wrong. It's just that we had a once-in-a-generation pandemic. We would like to see the actual numbers in addition to the projection. In fact, comparing the projection to the actual numbers is of value.
I was wondering if Mr. Marsh could return. I have some questions with respect to that $2.41 billion.
