No, I was very supportive of many of those initial steps. In fact, on the wage subsidy, I was on the record as having said that the early proposals weren't strong enough to create that continued labour market attachment.
I think many elements of that initial response to the pandemic were very well done. I would cut quite a bit of slack, given the speed at which they had to happen, for some of the problems in design that were inevitable with that kind of a fast rollout.
Having said all that, though, problems recur regularly, including fairly substantial crises. Russia's invasion of Ukraine reminds us of that. So I would like to see—I mentioned the 2008-09 parallel—a fiscal policy that gets the budget back towards surplus more quickly than is currently in prospect. As I mentioned already, a lot of the spending initiatives that we have seen have not been to do with the pandemic, including the expansion of the federal government's own operating costs. That has a long tail—for example, much higher pension costs going forward. The difficulty I have is that it doesn't appear that we're going to be robustly positioned for whatever comes next. Whether it's another pandemic, war, climate change, or other challenges that will be out there for future Canadians to deal with, they should have the fiscal capacity to deal with them.