Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If I am given the opportunity, I would like to share my time with my colleague, Ms. Faille.
I would like to come back to page 5 of the document you handed us. It states that the accumulated deficit is $463.7 billion, a $99.2 billion decline since the high-water mark of $562.9 billion reached in 1996-1997. Based on what I understand from the explanations of the Minister of National Revenue, there will be a rather sizeable increase in the deficit over the next few years.
Do you expect that we will exceed the amount reached in 1996-1997, in the short term?