Mr. Speaker, I will continue my speech and remain calm.
What we also have in Canada is a productivity problem. This country has a productivity problem, and it started a long time ago. It is the outcome of insufficient private investment in machinery and equipment, and this is precisely what are going to tackle with this budget.
The budget contains very concrete, real measures to trigger a wave of productivity-boosting investments. In fact, the only way to make life more affordable for Canadians is not to lower prices, but to increase Canadians' incomes.
Do our friends opposite understand that falling prices are known as deflation? Are our friends aware that deflation usually triggers a severe economic depression? That is no way to improve affordability. Increasing the incomes of Canadians is the way.
We need to boost productivity in order to increase Canadians' incomes. Canadians must have the tools they need to do their jobs more efficiently, which will help them earn higher wages. Our budget focuses on that, by triggering what we believe will be a wave of $1 trillion in investments, which will lead to a significant increase in productivity.
We are going to invest in infrastructure, we are going to invest in housing and, of course, we are going to invest in business productivity. A number of measures will be introduced, but today I will give just one example: a superdeduction to really promote investment.
Since I am running out of time, I will wrap up by saying that we did the right thing and we did it at the right time.