I have copies here if anybody wishes to have them. Unfortunately, because my assistant is sick at the moment, I only have English copies. I know that I need to have copies in both English and French, but if people want copies, I have the English version.
Minister, on page 281, a number of expenditures are tabled on infrastructure investment, housing investment measures, and EI premiums. To the best of my knowledge, these are temporary and will cease at the end of March 2011. I assume I'm correct on that.
For the multipliers, if one looks at the comment in brackets at the top, it reads “dollar impact on the level of real GDP of a permanent one dollar increase in fiscal measures”. My question is about the word “permanent”. The assumption is that these are permanent, and yet many of the expenditures are supposed to end on March 31, 2011. Would that not call into question the multipliers and their use in terms of projecting future GDP growth and jobs?