I noticed that with the current PBO and former PBO, there was some discrepancy between some of their opinions. I asked in the OGGO committee last week about the difference in investment shown by officials in the Department of Finance and what the current Parliamentary Budget Officer had looked at. He admitted that he did not take into account the fact that interprovincial trade barriers were coming down or that there were other international trade deals and so on that would create a more competitive environment and allow for greater investment, in my opinion, by those who are tendering on projects in Canada.
Having been a finance minister in a province for three years, I know that politicians don't do the analysis; that's done by finance staff. I have come to have great respect for the analysis done by finance staff.
Can you talk about the chart and the difference between what the Parliamentary Budget Officer put forward in terms of the $1 trillion in investment and what your officials had put forward?