Thanks, Chair.
Thanks for being with us, as always, witnesses.
Mr. Forbes, The Globe and Mail reported that former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, your former boss, on Friday received the news that she was to be fired from her position, yet she was still to come out to deliver the fall economic statement showing a $61-billion deficit, basically taking the fall for blowing past the $40 billion line in the sand.
Were you tasked with preparing a transition binder for Mark Carney or any other incoming new finance ministers?