Thank you.
I think it's very important to explain what we, as a government, are trying to do for the economy. Given the state of the global economy and the country's changing demographics, the biggest challenge facing the government is economic growth. At the beginning of our mandate, it was clear that the problematic numbers were attributable to our rate of economic growth. That is why we decided that the most important thing we could do for Canadian families all over the country was to make investments. We had to invest, first, in families and, second, in the country's future.
We began taking measures to put families in a better situation and help them become more optimistic about the future. The unemployment rate has gone down, so the approach has worked well. We also made investments in the future. An optimistic country has to invest to improve its situation. We have the best balance sheet in the G7, and we can make significant investments to improve our situation. Fortunately, things are starting to get better. Already, all families are better off thanks to job creation efforts. Our economic growth outlook is now more positive than it used to be.