Thank you for debunking, I think in your earlier testimony, the notion that Canada is at any risk of seeing American-style brinkmanship over borrowing authority. In a Westminster system, those kinds of impasses are solved through the concept of confidence in the government. It's a nonsense argument in defence of having extraordinary or enormous debt ceilings.
I do want to ask a question about this and about the debt ceiling. Having a buffer that is so far beyond any current or contemplated future need for borrowing really makes something of a mockery of the idea of having a debt ceiling. Why have a debt ceiling at all if the idea is that the ceiling should be so high that no such spending is contemplated? One has to conclude either that there is a plan to actually borrow the $600 billion or that there's really no excuse or reason to have it.
I ask, with the limited time that is left, for a comment on the scope and scale of the debt ceiling increase.