It's curious, Minister, that you only seem to want to show up here when you're asking for $2.6 billion in taxpayers' money. It's just odd that you would only come for that. I do hope you will be coming back for the full inflation study, because I think there are a lot of issues outside BillC-30 that we need to have a discussion on.
Minister, given the hard work that should have been done over the summer, there's been a lot of criticism about the spending of this government, particularly from a macroeconomic viewpoint. You alluded to this in your own opening comments about adding fuel to the fire.
In chapter 9 of your own budget 2022, you talked about a pause on certain spending of up to $3 billion, as well as a strategic policy review by Treasury Board.
Why, Minister, did you not use the summer to say that we're going to be giving more supports to Canadians through GST tax relief but at the same time shelving or postponing or stopping spending so that you would lessen the issue of inflation? Why did you not do that work?