So there's $2.5 billion less to spend. As you heard from the Governor of the Bank of Canada, who was in front of this committee just a few weeks ago, Canada may be faced with a low or zero growth recovery scenario in terms of job creation. These compounding factors, with some global uncertainty in Europe and a diminishment in expectations in China, would lead one to be more conservative in promises made by the federal government. Yet your government has gone ahead to make $26 billion to $28 billion in promises over the next couple of years. Is that true?
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