Mr. Benoit Robidoux at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

I had a question about what would happen if we used other multipliers for the jobs impact. What I could say right now, in fact, is if we would have used the CBO multipliers in the U.S. or the Council of Economic Advisers, what they assume is a multiplier of 0.75 between output and jobs instead of 0.6. This is 25% higher in terms of multipliers.

So instead of 220,000 we would have had something more in the range of 275,000. This gives you an idea, if we would have used U.S. assumptions, of how much higher the estimate would have been.