Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I know we're down to the wire for talking to our witnesses, so I'll get to the point, and hopefully I'll have a little time to share with my colleague Mr. Watson to make sure we both have an opportunity to get on the record.
I'm going to preface my comments. In testimony before the Senate banking committee, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said that “Overall, there will be a subdued recovery, but there will be a recovery”, and this is good news for Canadians.
I'm going to ask Ms. Donnelly in particular, do you think that Canadians are particularly ready to buy into targets and a plan that basically is, from what I can see, just a recreation of the green shift that was offered to Canadians in the last general election, which the chief economist of the Toronto Dominion Bank, Mr. Don Drummond, called the “biggest fiscal shock” in Canadian history in the Globe and Mail today?