You mentioned that you have conducted an assessment on the cost of some of the programs outlined in the fall economic statement. I know that you have done it previously on other measures as well.
Throughout the course of this pandemic, we've heard testimony from Mr. Macdonald from the Centre for Policy Alternatives that in fact had the government not borne the expenses of some of these programs—let's use the rent subsidy as an example—that cost would have fallen somewhere else.
Could you confirm whether there's a counterfactual or give us your assessment as to whether the cost actually would have been greater across the economy had the federal government not introduced some of these programs and instead had let the cost of the pandemic response fall to the private sector, to the household or even to provincial levels of government?