Mr. Speaker, my colleague brought up the issue of the debt that is being taken on in order to fulfill some of the nation-building projects and to grow out our diversification in ways never seen before, as well as to significantly increase our spending in defence. She identified some of the criticism of that, and we do hear it, yet at the same time, the IMF and other organizations such as credit agencies have identified Canada as being in a position to take on this debt right now.
Therefore I have come to the conclusion that if we have the capacity to do this now, if we are one of the best-positioned countries to do it, there could be no better time possible than right now to invest heavily, given everything that is going on in the world, in particular our relationship with the United States.