Mr. Chair, it is refreshing to hear a colleague who was once a minister of finance talk to us about issues and real things.
I think that the people of Laval must be very proud to hear my colleague share his experience. It is a great privilege to serve with a colleague who was once the finance minister of a great province like Quebec. I salute him and thank him for his economic statement.
He is right, and it is refreshing to hear comments and questions like these because, essentially, what is being said is that two G7 countries, Canada and Germany, have an AAA credit rating.
What does that give us? It gives us the fiscal capacity to make generational investments, similar to those that our colleagues in Germany made.
We are doing it in infrastructure, obviously in housing, productivity and innovation, as well as effort.
I will have a lot more to say in response to the next question.