I'm going to speak as a macro analyst. When I look at the overall performance of the economy over the last four years, it's been largely mediocre. The one exception is 2017 when Canada benefited from a pickup in the global economy, particularly in China and the United States, but there's very little to show for it.
One constant of the last four years has been large dollops of monetary and fiscal stimulus. That's generally been the case since the great financial crisis began in 2008. We don't have a lot to show for it in terms of improved overall macro economic performance. GDP has slowed down slightly over the last four years.
Without going into the specifics, you could argue that some spending in some areas has been beneficial, such as the GIS or the Canada child tax benefit, but a lot of spending hasn't. A lot of it, as has been increasingly the case over the decades, has been diverted into the civil service itself. People talk about our having to cut. What social spending programs are you going to cut? There are other areas where you can trim government spending without touching social spending programs, so I don't think that should be the only focus of restraint.