I will give a bit of explanation, again, and more explanation as to why this motion's so important.
Take a look at the minister's mandate letter, for example. In her mandate letter, there is fairly clear direction. I will read from it:
Our platform guides our government. Over the course of our four-year mandate, I expect us to deliver on all of our commitments. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that we fulfill our promises, while living within our fiscal plan.
That's a pretty straightforward argument there from the Prime Minister directly in the mandate letter.
Reading from that plan directly from the Liberal platform in 2015, it says, “We will run modest short-term deficits of less than $10 billion in each of the next two fiscal years to fund historic investments”—