Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. I want to thank all the presenters for their excellent presentations.
Thank you so much for your patience while we were voting upstairs.
My first question is going to be for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. I think it's important for me to just outline a little bit the state of our economy. We have the lowest GDP-to-debt ratio in the G7. Over 106% of our jobs have been recouped. Our business confidence is up. StatsCan has reported that in Q3 our GDP growth was 5.4%. Canadians are saving more. A number of our international credit agencies have reaffirmed our AAA rating.
In spite of all this—and I think it was Mr. Agnew who mentioned this—we know we're not out of the woods yet. We know that the recovery, as we're trying to get out of COVID, is uneven. We're still battling COVID. We know that public health measures continue to restrict our economic activity. We know that the trajectory of COVID and its variants remains uncertain and unpredictable.
As you know, a key part of Bill C-2 is moving away from the broad-based supports to more targeted supports. Do you agree with this approach of being more targeted in our supports as we move forward?