What I'm trying to figure out here in my mind is where the confirmation of the department's numbers will be, because this is the whole rationale for having a Parliamentary Budget Office: independent confirmation that we have faith in departments' budgets. If they're just taking, across the board, an average of 20 independent private sector analyses and you use the same, you're going to arrive at the same number. So where is the independent verification?
On May 1st, 2008. See this statement in context.