I think you're absolutely right, in that the Canadian government's austerity measures were not nearly as severe as other governments'—particularly European governments'—austerity measures. Those have been a complete disaster. Austerity measures in southern Europe, for instance, have caused a wholesale depression there. Certainly, it's a much smaller scale that we're speaking about here in Canada.
However, I would point out that economic growth has been quite slow, despite the fact that we are seeing small amounts of economic growth—well under the 2.5% to 3% that we saw in the decade of the 2000s. Driving that growth back up more to the potential of the Canadian economy should be a key concern of the federal government.