Let's be clear that Canada has many strengths as a country and in its economy, and it's good to celebrate the resilience of the economy, which we recently profiled in our assessments of the spring economic update.
There are a lot of uncertainties and risks in the global context, including tariffs and the conflict in the Middle East, and what they mean for supply chains, oil prices and investor confidence. Seeing Canada navigating this is something we all want.
I think you've captured the aspect of profiling the strengths of the economy well. The goal for the parliamentary budget office is supporting parliamentarians in terms of where debate may be warranted, and that goes to the questions—perhaps more so than the idea that investment should drive growth and prosperity—of how the government is going about it. It goes to how parliamentarians can be supported with the amount of detail so that we can do our studies to give a factual basis about what that might mean in terms of the impacts on the economy and impacts on government finances.
We look forward to working with the government to support parliamentarians with this information.
