Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the team from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada for being here. We have already wished each other happy holidays, but we will do so again today.
I would also like to thank the representatives of the Department of Finance and the Treasury Board Secretariat for being here.
I'm going to get right into it with a number of questions.
Ms. Boudreau, according to the public accounts, the reason net debt hasn't fluctuated much is that there's a major difference in pension assets. If we look at the numbers more closely, we see that there is a $7‑billion difference between 2023 and 2024.
In one week, I received 30 emails from public servants who live in my riding accusing the government of stealing their pensions. If we dig a little deeper, we can see that the government did indeed dip into the surplus. According to a public service union, the government took far more than it is allowed to take from the public service pension plan.
In addition, you mentioned that this transaction was one of the ones that lag behind the tabling of the Public Accounts of Canada. What seems odd to me is what caused this delay, the fact that the government decided to go after the money contributed by workers, by public servants.
Of the $7 billion, how much, if not the total amount, was taken from the public service pension fund?