Again, we often use analogies of households to try to understand this government-made function, to be able to relate this to Canadians. A household receiving a one-time payment and then running its household books in such a way as to expect that payment to continue on, even though we know it's one-time, runs that household, as does a government, back into deficit, back into borrowing quickly if big, expensive promises have been made.
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