Thank you.
You had a really interesting point, I thought, in your earlier answer about the difference between investments and spending. On a personal basis, if you think about your RRSPs, or investing in your home, your education or a business, you understand that these are investments because you have confidence that you're going to make a return on those investments. It's not seen as spending.
You also mentioned the need to have tools to develop a national economy. I think, a lot of the time, the difference between what we consider an investment and what we consider spending when it comes to public funding is perhaps more of an ideological outlook than a question of whether it is really an investment or spending. When we're talking about investing in major infrastructure projects, investing in building up the skilled trades or investing in Canadian businesses and developing the Canadian economy, we genuinely see that as an investment, leveraging new private investment and building the economy.
My question, through you, Chair—