I don't think there's any confusion. I think spending $80 billion more than you have this year alone is a very clear indicator of your and your government's inability to manage the books and balance them. Unfortunately, we are not seeing any improvement on that in this exercise.
I'm going to move on to the Access to Information Act.
There are many Canadians who are currently concerned about the changes to the Access to Information Act that your department is proposing, which include eliminating emails and texts as responses to requests for access to information in addition to allowing departments to put in place halts or pauses when access to information requests are made.
I believe that Canadians deserve transparency from their government and that these changes would significantly reduce transparency for Canadians trying to obtain information about the decisions your government has taken and your responsibility with respect to that.
Would you agree with me that government should be more transparent and that you, as the President of the Treasury Board, want to provide transparency for Canadians?