I'll start with Mr. Mintz and Mr. Cross for the first couple of questions I have.
We'll have one trillion dollars' worth of debt. It might even be $1.2 trillion—who knows?—by the time we're done with this. It strikes me that one of the things we need to start talking about is how we are going to.... We need significant growth if we're going to have any chance of starting to repatriate some of that debt.
It strikes me that two things have to happen. The preferred is private sector investment, getting companies to invest in Canada and invest in projects in Canada. Could you comment on what has to change, or what you see as fiscal levers that we could have to encourage that kind of investment?
The second piece is that we hear from witness after witness about shovel-ready projects for public funding. If we're going to consider more debt and more public funding toward any kind of project, should we not have some sort of filter that should focus on those projects that will improve productivity and maybe actually create some revenue, rather than create a drag on the other levels of government supporting their operations?
Could you comment on those two different things?