I think there's a lot of focus, and fiscal planning tends to be kind of one-year out. In fact, even in the current environment, there was a lot of focus in the year past on whether or not we were going to have a surplus of $10 billion, $11 billion, or $12 billion. One of the roles of the parliamentary budget officer could potentially be to look at fiscal planning from a much longer-term perspective. It certainly is the case in the Congressional Budget Office. When it looks at these issues it provides longer-term projections. Currently the government provides five-year plans on the economic and fiscal update, but when it actually produces its budgets they're only the current year plus the next two years out.
So looking at issues of aging demographics and other related issues, different policy parameters for different programs, what it could possibly mean to the fiscal situation over the next 10, 15, 20, or 30 years, could be something that the parliamentary budget officer could do. Certainly it could, if it's deemed to be a priority. This certainly plays out in the context of federal-provincial relations and fiscal federalism as well.