Well, there's an issue around structural spending, but I'm going to start with your first point. The track for nominal income growth, because that's what government actually taxes, is below what we were forecasting 18 months ago.
With my colleague Matthew Stewart, who was here, I talked about the government's capacity to actually balance the books by 2015, which was the conversation at that point. We said that it was quite doable. We are below that growth track now, not by a huge amount, but by a few billions.
This means that in our forecast the government will be able to balance its books in 2015-16 now, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing to be going out one year longer. It's not going to add much to Canada's overall stock of debt. As well, we have to be mindful of the ratio.
But I would not counsel withdrawal of stimulus. So don't just stick to the plan because you have a plan. Think about the plan in the real world context, where we're having these extraordinary shocks from outside, and then do a course correction with the end plan still being in sight.