Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's macroeconomics, not macro socio-economics, first of all. It's just macroeconomics. It is very fiscally embodied in terms of its main responsibility.

The fact that we put it into Finance and Finance had lost the Bureau of Statistics, that is just coincidence. I can tell you there is no advantage in doing that to balance out numbers in some way. There was no thinking like that. It was simply that our feeling was that the macroeconomics piece belonged primarily in Finance.

Now it has been done piecemeal and we've had consultants. With our diamond markets, with oil and gas coming, with other minerals, with resource revenue sharing arrangements hopefully being achieved within the next little while, it's very important that we do more than just manage our expenditures and negotiate a formula for how many dollars we get from the federal government. Our government is evolving to the point where we need to have that macroeconomics unit.

Putting it in with the Bureau of Statistics could work. The difficulty there is that the Bureau of Statistics basically has a responsibility to the whole government, all departments, to collect good statistical information and draw some conclusions from that information, but not do a lot of policy interpretation on that. That's up to each department to do their own policy decisions, whether it's Health, Education, Transportation or whatever it may be. So giving them the authority to collect the statistics and do that extrapolation and then, at that same time, asking that same body to do the conclusion to it would be compromising the role of the Bureau of Statistics and may not fit that well. But, Mr. Chairman, these are things that we can debate. However, it works, we are all one together; we have to work together. I think it would be worthwhile, if we haven't done that yet, is to have a presentation to the committee at some time on the parameters of macroeconomics; maybe do the same thing with the role of the Bureau of Statistics, as well. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.