First of all, what I can say is that our government...and I can't say what another government would have spent its money on, because that for me has always been the issue: is the government addressing priority issues? As far as I'm concerned, our government is committed to growth and spending on average to the rate of the growth of the economy, and the overall increase in budgetary spending 2007-08 is 5.9%.
It should be noted that the 11.3% increase in operating and capital expenditures of the 2007-08 main estimates represents only one component of the total budgetary expenses of the main estimates, and as a whole, in relation to a series of other increases and decreases in budgetary amounts, the increase in operating and capital expenditure falls within the overall budgetary total as outlined with the November 2006 economic and fiscal update.