I do want to say thank you, because you've been very professional, and your testimony has been very helpful.
I'll presume, Mr. Rochon and Mr. Robidoux, that your testimony is equally helpful. Actually, it has been.
I say this quite sincerely, because I think a comment was made by the ombudsman a couple of meetings back that sometimes it doesn't feel as if we as members of Parliament appreciate the hard work of our officials. I just know I speak for all of us here at this table when I say well done.
Mr. Rochon, you mentioned at the outset in your comments about the 220,000 jobs created or maintained as a result of Canada's economic action plan. Then I heard you make a reference to the Conference Board and U of T in subsequent testimony. Also you went to them to backstop your numbers, as it were. You determined, as a result of that, that the numbers you've indicated are actually conservative estimates--good word.
Here's my more practical question. You said they used higher multiples. Based on your estimates that 220,000 jobs were created, could I get a sense, using those other two centres of reference, what they might have estimated the jobs to be created?