Mr. Chair, we report in our audit that government did attempt to collect information program by program, but it was judged that in many cases it was unreliable or not complete, and as well, the nature of the data was quite varied, so it was very difficult to aggregate that. So instead the government has turned to macroeconomic analysis provided by the Department of Finance. We have not gone into any kind of assessment of that. I believe the Parliamentary Budget Officer is doing that kind of work, has made comments on this, and I presume will continue to do so.
In our second audit coming next fall we will be looking at the kind of information that has been reported, but this was simply here to say that they were unable to rely on the specific information program by program and instead went to this macroeconomic analysis. I can only presume this is where this 400,000 number came from.