Further to that, there is some frustration. If I can speak in a very non-partisan fashion, I think all members of Parliament are sometimes frustrated with the information we receive. I don't know whether it's a lack of the information's availability, but do you, Mr. Page, believe, on the information you have access to, that given the fact that your job is Parliamentary Budget Officer and that you report to Parliament you should have privileged access to information that a member of Parliament shouldn't have? In your requests to the department, do you think, if you phone a department or do an access to information request, that you should have a different, elevated status for accessing that information from what a member of Parliament has? Or do you believe that when you ask a department for this information or make an access to information request on behalf of a parliamentarian who provides you instructions, you'd get the information that I would get if I made the same request as a member of Parliament?
On October 5th, 2010. See this statement in context.