I'm getting there. I'm getting there, okay? It's an important contrast.
We collectively said that we needed to shut down the economy, and in order to ask people to do that and to prevent economic scarring, it was necessary for the government to put a floor under the economy to support businesses and to support households.
The inflation and affordability challenge is quite different. We cannot fully compensate every single Canadian family and every single Canadian business for the higher costs of inflation. If we did that, it would be the Sisyphean struggle, and we would be pumping huge oceans of money into the economy and making the Bank of Canada's job even harder.
That's why—