Public Accounts committee  Well, I think I said I couldn't commit to providing it before going back to the department.

Public Accounts committee  I would like to verify through legal advice of the department what you are entitled to and whether, effectively, you are entitled to any information you want to see. Second, if it's the case, then we'll move. If it's not the case, an agreement will have to be reached among the de

Public Accounts committee  They pay tax when they put the money in. They just don't pay tax when they get a return on it. It's a bit like an inverted RRSP, if you want, so it's the same idea. So saying they don't pay tax is wrong. They don't pay tax on the return because they put it in an account where the

Public Accounts committee  The return is not taxed, but I would just mention again that it's an inverted RRSP. So the return is not taxed on RRSPs either. It's taxed when you cash it at the end, but you get a deduction at the beginning that you don't get with a TFSA. So it's just inverting the two. If you

Public Accounts committee  I think the two critical aspects are health spending and pensions. They tend to be the most important spending items related to aging and that will be important over the next, say, 20 years.

Public Accounts committee  Again, I think provinces are well placed to do it. I think most provinces, at least the largest ones, have the tools to do it. To be honest, they probably are doing it as we speak. They do this analysis so they can publish it too. I would encourage these provinces to publish and

Public Accounts committee  That's a very good question. We do analyses that look at.... Let's say, for example, it's a major change in tax policy, a reduction in taxes, an increase in taxes, or something major like that in personal income tax or corporate income tax. We have these general accrual models

Public Accounts committee  It's under way, but it's not completed.

Public Accounts committee  I would say the structure and the model and everything is ready to run. We'll have to finish the budget before we can implement that run, and it will take some time to do it, but we'll be able to give that to the Minister of Finance before the end of the process. But we are still

Public Accounts committee  For every document we publish, we always as a department consult with our minister, and he approved these publications. So we'll have to go back to him, but again, the government here, this is a commitment from the Department of Finance, supported by the government, to publish ev

Public Accounts committee  I don't think we need to clarify. It's a misreading of what is a commitment. This is a commitment of the Department of Finance and the Minister of Finance, implicitly.

Public Accounts committee  It's not in black and white, but—

Public Accounts committee  No, I couldn't. It's a question for the Minister of Finance to decide when he wants to publish a report.

Public Accounts committee  We have a commitment to publish over this year with no—

Public Accounts committee  I can confirm that the Department of Finance has rejected the second part of the recommendation to publish projections for all governments.