I understand the impulse to do it, but I think it's a problem to make policy in that way. This is because some of those things are very hard to sustain, but they're also politically very hard to unwind, as we just saw with the extension of the gas tax holiday. I think that it's possible for the federal government to make an even stronger case than it's been doing.
It's been making a strong case that we need to make the real investments: the investments in infrastructure, the investments in trade-oriented infrastructure, and encouraging major projects to go ahead, for example. I think it's possible to make that case and at the same time be a bit more disciplined when it comes to some of the transfer payments and some of the operating costs, because that's how you preserve your fiscal advantage.
I am concerned that the federal government—