Finance committee  Hi there, I'm Brad Recker from the Fiscal Policy Division. We have been pretty focused on budget estimates' alignment over the past couple of years, and in budget 2018 we made some significant progress. In annex 2, in the back pages of the budget, you'll find tables that, on a d

Finance committee  No, that would be our first step for sure.

Finance committee  I would just say that those are simply long-term projections based on, as you say, almost heroic assumptions with respect to long-term spending and everything growing essentially at the rate of growth of the economy. They're not projections of the current fiscal plan of the gover

Finance committee  It's an annual publication.

Finance committee  It's typically in the fall, yes.

Finance committee  It's typically in the fall and after the fall update. We've only been publishing it for three years, I think.

Finance committee  I'm Brad Recker from the fiscal policy division. We published that kind of a report to test or take a long-term view of the fiscal sustainability of the Canadian federal government. I think the key conclusion of that report is that the fiscal plan, if left to certain assumptions