Great. Thank you.
In terms of budget projections, for a long time now there have been accusations, regardless of the party in power, that the government of the day is always generating a forecast for a huge deficit, and then it ends up not being that and then they look like heroes. Then the political accusation is, “You did that on purpose. You set that number up so that you could come in here, x number of months later, and look like a hero”, and there have been repeated promises by governments coming and going that they're not going to do that any more.
One of the benefits of all of that is that the PBO now exists, and I see that the government is now prepared to honour its promise to make that officer an agent of Parliament. That's very good. Let's make sure that happens ASAP.
However, overall, how is the government doing now, partisanship aside, compared to historically, in terms of those projections? Are we starting to see less of a swing in that range, or do we still have an issue?