Thank you, Chair.
Minister, I am consistently shocked by the headlines that I read with your picture. The one I saw most recently—which I guess is what we'll study next—is on the estimates, which are $432.9 billion, which I understand is an 8.9% increase compared with what was proposed a year ago.
Since we're here today discussing the supplementary estimates, I see that you're asking for $10.3 billion in the supplementary estimates. I'm shocked that you require this amount of funding at a time where Canadians are seeing a 40% increase in food prices and at a time where young Canadians are being priced out of potentially ever owning a home.
How can you possibly justify $10.3 billion more when Canadians are in a difficult cost-of-living situation as well as facing 40-year-high inflation?