Just judging by our experience with the parliamentary budget officer with respect to pharmacare, it seems to me that in order for the PBO to do accurate work, his office needs a lot of parameters and information defined by this committee as to what exactly we mean. So I have difficulty understanding how we can task the PBO with costing out something that this committee hasn't looked at and for which we can't provide any of those parameters.
I also think it's quite unusual for the PBO to be asked by committees to cost out their proposed programs. I thought it was a creative suggestion, I think from Mr. Kang, that we do it in the pharmacare study. I thought it was creative and worthwhile.
Maybe Dr. Carrie can explain to me how we would give the parameters to the PBO before the committee has studied the issue and understands what exactly we would want him to look at.