I simply wanted to respond by saying that independent credit rating agencies, like Standard & Poor's for example, have consistently rated our economy and our government's work on the economy with a AAA credit rating. It is not “a nothing”. It is actually an assessment of the fiscal health of our economy. To denigrate the work of those third party analysts about our economy is, simply, to misunderstand the importance of that credit rating.
I will further say that those are economic markers that indicate the fiscal health of a country. At the same time, what we as a government have chosen to do is to actually respond to poverty, to homelessness and to the need in educational institutions to support researchers, masters and doctoral students with supports to feed the pipeline of brilliance and of the AI and digital economies.
There's a clear choice that is being made here between the plan of our government in budget 2024 and the absence of a plan from the opposition: They simply criticize with no actual alternative on the table.