Thank you, Chairman.
I want to look again at projected versus actual, and let's look at the surplus. The surplus was projected at $3.3 billion, and it came in at $9.6 billion, which is $6.3 billion higher than projected, and that's obviously a good thing. And as you know, the previous prime minister, Paul Martin, had instituted a practice of putting down money for a rainy day, of building a contingency fund using some moneys to build the contingency fund and other moneys to pay down debt.
My question is this. Since we have a much larger—triple that expected—surplus in 2007 and 2008, was there money set aside for a contingency fund to prevent the kinds of economic circumstances we're going into and facing today?