Mr. Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to speak to this committee of the whole today.
I would especially like to speak to some of the spending measures outlined in these main estimates, which aim to support Canadians during a time of significant economic volatility while preparing for the opportunities that lie ahead.
I want to maybe focus a bit more specifically on budgets and estimates being moral documents. They are statements of values, and that budget is coming. Meanwhile, we have the estimates in front of us. Really, with the finance estimates, it is riches, because we could describe any number of issues—