Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Merci aux témoins.
Mr. Hodgson, going back to your statement, you're thinking that within, I guess, four or five years, eventually the government is going to have a balanced budget.
I asked a question of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, but we ran out of time. It looks as though the government is going to benefit from an increase in revenues. I think it lucked in, or lucked out, however you want to put it.
But it's on the expense side where I have a problem. The expenses have been going up just as much as revenues have, taking out the stimulus money. You seem to have no problem in terms of this government's being able to get its expenses under control. I don't see that. I don't see how it has been able to do it up until now, in the four or five years it's been in power, and how it's going to do it. It is so irresponsible; we can't even get projections. It's ashamed of its own projections. We can't get it to give us backup for small items such as spending on F-35s and prisons. So I don't see how you can tell me that you have full faith in this government's being able to keep its expenses under control for the next five years.