Mr. Albas, as I said in my opening remarks, the careful balance that the government must find right now as Canadians grapple with inflation and as the Bank of Canada fights inflation is quite different from what we needed to do when COVID hit and we had to shut down the economy.
When COVID hit, we said—we as a country decided—that we were going to close things down to save lives, and we did save lives. A study over the summer led by David Naylor showed that 70,000 additional Canadians would have died had we suffered U.S. levels of mortality. We did the right thing, but we actually all collectively said—