Thank you, Chair.
Welcome back, Mr. Giroux and Ms. Vanderwees. It's always good to have you at the committee. We appreciate the work your office does to support parliamentarians. I know that those of us who do not have large departments or staff rely on your work on a regular basis. It's of very high quality.
You mentioned that in the supplementary estimates.... I know that we're spending more per year on debt servicing costs than we have in the past—almost double, in fact. I'm a little nervous about the projections the government has for debt servicing costs, because there was a surprise interest rate increase announcement last week. I believe the government's projections are that rates were supposed to have come down by the end of the year. I haven't been able to find the average interest rate that the government expects to roll over or issue its debt at for this year coming up.
Have you considered or are you tracking the debt service costs? It's now one of the largest components of the spending line.