Well, I personally would prefer to see the deficit disappear quite quickly. There was a reference earlier to what happened in 2008-09, and what I very much liked about what the federal government did after that episode was that it did, after having run a deficit much bigger than it wanted to, get the budget back to surplus; and that meant that a lot of the bills that would have otherwise been passed forward indefinitely were paid more by the people who benefited from some of the fiscal stimulus at the time.
I'm not seeing that same approach this time, and it does concern me—not just that some of the pandemic-related spending has gone on perhaps longer than it should have but also that we're seeing other types of spending as well. The federal government's own operating spending—the federal government employment is way up—and those things are going to be very hard to reign in when the time comes to get the budget back to balance.