Thank you so much for the question.
The first part of budget discipline would be to undo a lot of the mistakes of the last 10 years. The unprecedented growth in the size of Canada's bureaucracy has been detrimental not just to the state of our finances but also to the state of our economy. If you put in more bureaucrats and more regulators, they're not necessarily going to do better bureaucracy or regulate better. They're going to regulate more and add bureaucratic layers. That's what we've seen happening in this country for a long time.
The first part of any plan to get back to balance should be to slim down the size of bureaucracy quite aggressively and see if we can use some of those new technologies, such as AI, to progressively reduce the need for as many bureaucrats as we have now.
Of course, the other thing we need to look into is not putting in new spending but rather doing a total program review. This asks not just if there is a benefit to what we're doing, but also if this is an appropriate role for the federal government. We've seen the federal government expand into many areas of provincial jurisdiction, where not only it is not doing better, but it's also harming our federal finances.