Mr. Speaker, I would remind the hon. gentleman that our fiscal forecasting is not done in-house. It is not done on the basis of a single economist that we just pick because he might agree with our point of view. It is based on the independent professional judgment of 19 professional economists selected from across the country.
While I am interested in the proposal that the hon. gentleman makes for some kind of independent review, I would caution against following the American example too closely because the Americans have an annual budget deficit of very nearly the total.