Thank you.
First, I'm not from that camp, and I don't think any reasonable person is, that the Government of Canada cannot afford a $20-billion deficit. Of course it can. There's no question about it. It has an enormous fiscal capacity. The PBO has documented that.
We don't need to read the PBO report; we just have to read the monetary policy reports, as I do every six months, that are published by the Bank of Canada. The numbers are laid out. Or, if you read the IMF outlook on Canada or the OECD outlook, these studies corroborate each other.
It's not a question of whether we can afford it; of course, we can.