Let me first address the context of your question. We believe that our budget has struck the right balance. We continue to believe that Canadians, when they made a choice in 2015, made the right choice.
I appreciate that you want us to go back to doing things the way that the Conservative government before us did—to focus on one number and to do so in a way that, unfortunately, would lead us to a really bad outcome. What we found with the previous approach was that we had really bad unemployment and we had much lower growth. Our approach—which has been to focus on responsibly investing in Canadians, to growing the economy, and to getting more people working—is working.
As you go out around your riding, I know you'll find that more people are working, because that's just statistically what's happening in this country. When we find that policies are working, I think we need to embrace them. As patriotic Canadians, I hope that even the people in the Conservative party would say that they are pleased when the economy is doing well.
The economy is doing well. The approach we've taken is working, and we're doing it while reducing the size of the federal debt as a function of GDP. We're doing this in a gradual way that really makes sense.