I think the answer is nuanced. What we have before us is a provision. The government made the decision to submit to Parliament the legislative provision to repeal the Federal Balanced Budget Act. The answer has to be nuanced, as we have to take that provision into consideration. There is a discrepancy between the provision currently being studied by Parliament and the legislation as it will be once the provision is adopted. If and when Parliament adopts clause 79 of the Budget Implementation Act, it will have never violated the Federal Balanced Budget Act, as this legislation will be retroactively deemed never to have been in force.
