Thank you.
This government obviously saw the pandemic as an opportunity to shovel money to their friends. We saw this with the multiple ethics breaches by members of this government in giving contracts to Liberal insiders and personal friends.
While the government may say that all the spending was justified and necessary due to the pandemic, your own office stated that $204.5 billion, roughly 36%, in spending from March 2020 to April 2022 was not pandemic-related.
Despite all this extra spending—or maybe because of all the extra spending—Canadians are worse off. All we need to do is look at the example of the ArriveCAN scam and your own observations or concerns in response to a question I asked today regarding the increase in spending versus the performance of the public service.
My question to you would be this: How will the cost of the increased debt that we have incurred as a result of this wasteful spending affect the government's ability to deliver services moving forward?