Thank you for the question.
I want to start by pointing out that, in the last Conservative round, no question was asked or no time was left for me to answer. It only leads me to think that maybe the Conservatives are afraid of our answers. That would be surprising.
I want to be serious for a minute, because we're talking about the Canadian economy and we're talking about the lives of Canadians, and that is serious. I want to say to Canadians that we're very aware of the affordability challenges that people face. It's something we take seriously, and it's something we're concerned about.
I also want to say that when it comes to the extraordinary measures we put in place both to fight both the coronavirus and to fight the recession it caused, it was absolutely the right thing to do. We were hit by the deepest crisis since the Second World War in terms of a national emergency, and the deepest economic recession since the Great Depression. Things were bad. They could have been so much worse absent extraordinary, agile government action that put a floor under the losses and prevented economic scarring.
Today, we are seeing the positive results of that emergency action. We are seeing the GDP growing. We are seeing a very strong job recovery. We are seeing strong exports. We are seeing that the economic muscle of Canada has not atrophied and that Canadian families are still solvent. This is really important.