Mr. Chair, let me just start by saying that it's really important for Canadians not to be misled by a false narrative about where we are in the Canadian economy. That is important, because confidence, people's attitudes, have a very real impact when it comes to our future prosperity. Confidence, animal spirits and a certainty about where we are going in the future are a very real economic factor.
It's really incumbent on me to correct the entirely misleading impression that Canadians are being given here, which is that, somehow, our economic policies aren't working and that, somehow, our country is not doing what is in fact the case, namely that we are in the midst of a really strong recovery from a really dreadful external event. The external event was a global pandemic. Our government responded at scale and appropriately. The result is GDP growing robustly, jobs being all back, strong exports and household finances in good shape.
That is a good story, and that is what Canadians need to feel confident about.