I'm glad you picked up on those two words. I chose them carefully for that exact reason.
We aren't just discussing a tax measure in isolation. The purpose of our tax system is to fund the government's ability to sustainably support the programs that the government delivers. The additional revenues that will come from this reform and how we treat capital gains are clearly intended to support the additional program initiatives that were also announced in the budget. I think several of those are very important, both for a stronger economy and a healthier one, as you note.
School lunches is an example. Canada is one of the only industrial countries in the world that provides no assistance for school lunches, particularly for families with low incomes. That would clearly improve both physical and mental health.
The dental care program, which is rolling out, obviously with the leadership of your NDP colleagues, is clearly going to improve health among older Canadians and lower-income Canadians. The reports that we're receiving from millions of people signing up for that program indicate clearly that it's meeting an unmet need. We could say the same thing about the disability benefit and some of the affordable housing measures, etc.
Those programs are associated with revenue flows and expenses that are, I think, modest in the grand scheme of the federal budget and the overall economy, but they are important. In order to meet the government's fiscal targets at the same time, they have to be funded. In that regard, the connection between the two is important.