Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
We can all recall the great fanfare that the government made associated with the creation of your office. The Parliamentary Budget Officer was going to be a mechanism whereby Parliament could hold the government to account and get access to information and have a second opinion about the government's management of finances. In view of that, your inability to get access to the information you require from government is disappointing, to say the least.
When you were here in December I asked you a series of questions about information--for instance, about whether you had any idea what departments have done to achieve the savings they are projecting. You had no idea then. Do you have a better idea now, because as you have said, you have some information from 10 departments, or some of those departments?