In fairness, after the prior government had cut a number of programs and had reduced the A-base from about $55 billion to $45 billion—and certainly many of us in the provinces at that time felt the impact on health care, education, social programs—because it had been cut down to the bone so much, in fact right into that bone in many respects, what they didn't do was put into place a mechanism to review that particular $45 billion. It was always assumed that the $45 billion would always be good spending. There was no mechanism to determine that those priorities were still relevant for the people of Canada.
So the expenditure management system will in fact review all of that spending to ensure that the spending continues to address the priorities of Canadians.