My questions are not for or against the principle of an act to balance the budget. Rather, they focus on the fact that it really is a departure from the fundamental principles of law.
As Mr. Recker mentioned, there is no precedent at the federal level for a law on balancing the budget, but it does exist at the provincial level. Their content and scope are somewhat the same as what we have here. The precedents that have been established do not necessarily require the government to have the right to make this change retroactively and to abrogate a law by saying that it does not exist and that it never did.