I thank the hon. member for his question.
We have to have a balanced budget in 2014-2015.
We have made very major expenditures in infrastructure. That's why we have a deficit of more than $30 billion right now.
We have to get back to balanced budgets. If we don't, quite frankly, we will be following the path that has been followed by certain European countries, and to a lesser extent by the United States, and that path leads to a bad place. That path leads to governments that cannot manage their fiscal situations and are put in positions where they have to make draconian cuts and have populations that are, not surprisingly, upset and alarmed by the draconian cuts that they must make in order to achieve fiscal balance again. We have avoided that situation in Canada by prudent fiscal management and we intend to continue to avoid it.
We will stay the course and we will balance the budget in 2014-15. We're making some modest expenditures as part of the second phase of Canada's economic action plan, particularly with respect to hiring and because of the concern with unemployment, but that's the plan, and we intend to stick to the plan.