There is a relationship, obviously, between a government's decision to take on debt and its ability to provide programs and services. Both of the territorial news releases actually acknowledged that link. They spoke to the importance of understanding that borrowing takes away from a government's ability to offer important programs and services and that they need to balance decisions taken today with the future.
That's, in essence, the intent of the analysis undertaken to arrive at a sustainable amount of debt servicing a territorial government can undertake. Given the Government of Canada's significant investment, through other transfers, in ensuring that territorial governments have the capacity to take decisions to provide programs and services comparable to those in the rest of Canada, part of the intent of the borrowing limit is to respect that balance.