Very good. Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair.
I guess more precisely, all government spending feeds through into some real economic activity. Basic national income accounting would suggest that government spending would feed through and provide some sort of fiscal impulse into the economy—some more, some less, depending on the type of government spending.
Yes, it was probably I who answered that question, Mr. Member, and it was just to try to exemplify that a dollar spent by government feeds through into the economy in some way. Some of it leaks out of the economy, such as through exports, but it does find its way into either the pocketbook of a consumer or the income statement of a business.