Madam Speaker, my colleague is quite right to be concerned.
When we return to the House after the next election campaign, we will probably come back to the idea of a balanced budget. That is what usually happens.
I do not want to displease my colleague, but governments, whether Liberal or Conservative, sadly have this unfortunate habit of balancing their budgets on the backs of the provinces.
That is when transfer payments get cut. That is what happened in the 1990s, but the Harper government did the same thing from 2013 onwards when it cut transfer payments. We have to expect this and be very vigilant about it.