That really doesn't answer this question of having some flexibility on a year-by-year basis to actually invest in those areas that Canadians seem to be anticipating and that they need just to survive on a day-to-day basis.
Let me then take it a step further and go with your analogy of government debt being nothing less than a Canadian national mortgage. Let me ask you this: if there was a working family that had a son or daughter struggling to get to school, and a grandmother who was paying out of her pocket for drugs and couldn't afford necessary medications, and their plumbing was collapsing, and for the sake of argument let's just say their household was fighting an unpredictable and very expensive war, would you advocate putting all of that family's bonus to paying down the mortgage?