Mr. Chair, as part of the audit we actually have looked at what other OECD member countries have done in this area of long-term fiscal sustainability. There is a fairly extensive table on pages 19 and 20, which shows the various jurisdictions and what they do in this area. In the narrative paragraph 7.51 we have also indicated that a good number of countries have actually published 40-year projections. Some of them do it annually. Some are on a 50-year cycle. In the United States they actually go 75 years out. It gives you a bit of a sense of what the benchmark might look like in terms of some of the more developed countries. As I mentioned in my opening statement, now with the government tabling its report—they tabled it in October and plan to publish it every year—we would be standing in good stead among the member countries of the OECD.
On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.