Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This question is more about fiscal and economic impacts. I'm hoping someone here at the meeting can address that. Perhaps it's Mr. Leblanc or someone else.
I just want to go over one thing the finance minister said in her foreword to the fall economic statement. She said, “we cannot support every single Canadian in the way we did...[during] the pandemic. To do so would force the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates even higher. It would make life more expensive, for everyone, for longer.”
I'm just wondering if the department advised the minister on that statement and if you agree with it.