Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question. What it means is that even this government is not above the law. The justice wrote:
...Parliament not only intended that the Parliamentary Budget Officer be answerable to it and to its committees, but also to every backbencher irrespective of political stripe.
And:
...shield any given member of either House of Parliament from the will of the majority.
What that means is that we have a right to be asking these fiscal questions of the PBO. The PBO has a lawful responsibility to respond, and the only way he or she can do that is to get the information from the government, and it has now been told by the courts to provide—