Thank you so much for the question.
I would say that if operational spending is going up, it is not investment. It's spending more, and we're not necessarily seeing more investment out of this. Unfortunately, this has been the trend for a long time with the federal government.
We've seen massive increases in hiring. We've seen that there's also a lot more money going towards the public service. Unfortunately, Canadians are not seeing results from that, whether it's when you show up at the passport office and it takes so very long and is so very hard to get a passport, or just in terms of everyday services that we can easily rely on. They're seeing an increase in cost, but they're not seeing that translate into a better quality of services, unfortunately.
